Ghosts of Shlachs Past

This year on parshapost I present an essay by Sherrie B. Miller. I learned from it and I hope you do too.

I remain intrigued by the observation I mentioned here about the fact that 3 parshiyot's names are a form of the word shlach - to send. I also kind of enjoyed revisiting this entire post and its comments.

In this post I write about Shlach as well as a topic I think about often and was just discussing tonight; is it possible to (legitimately) reframe our conception of lashon hara?

Here, I cite a great piece by Rabbi Leibtag and, speaking about ghosts, I remember my dear friend and mentor Aaron Bulman Z"L - "his lips speak (Torah) from the grave" -Yebamoth 97a (see this blog for an interesting essay on this concept), who first introduced me to the Torah of Rabbi Leibtag.

This post deals with the idea that the meraglim were expected to learn from Miriam's mistake. The question could be raised; she spoke about a man, they spoke about a land, so how were they supposed to know the same rule applied (and does it really?)

Wishing you an early Shabbat Shalom. May we be blessed to grow from this week's parsha.