Parashas Shelach

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Shelach.In this Parsha we read of the terrible incident of the Spies and how their slander of HaShem's Gift of the Land that caused the people to weep in fear on what was the night of the Ninth of Av,resulted in that generation,not entering the land and having to complete the wanderings in the Wilderness till the fortieth year and that night becoming the most tragic in Jewish History,for it was on the Ninth of Av - Tisha B' Av that our Two Temples were destroyed as well as so many other tragic happenings like the signing of the order for the Jews to leave Spain in 1492 BCE , the Chmielnitsy massacres through Ukraine and Poland in 1642-43 BCE , The order to use Zyklon B Gas for the Final Solution of the nazis and so many other terrible happenings through time on this date.
Our Parsha this week describes how the Spies were sent, their journey and their slanderous report back , which caused panic and the resultant Decree of G-D.
The Parsha talks of those that still wanted to enter the Land straight after the Decree and were killed.The Parsha then goes on to describe the Libations with offerings,the Need to do Lehafrish Challah,where a portion of dough was to be given for HaShem to the Kohanim.Torah then teaches about Unintentional sin and the grave sin of idolworship.
The Parsha then continues to tell of the sad event of the Shabbos Desecrator and then HaShem Teaches about the holy Tzitzis to be worn on the corners of the garment,to remind us of HaShem's 613 Mitzvos , where the word 'Tzitzis in Gematriah comes to 600 and to this is added the number of the 5 knots on each string and the 8 strings at the end of each corner hanging from the last knot on each corner - thus reminding us of the 613 Mitzvos , when we look at the Tzitzis.It is on this Holy note of verses which form our third paragraph of The Shema Prayer that this Parsha ends.
Throughout this Parsha we are deeply taught to have faith in all HaShem Tells us.It is in times where there is a lack of faith that we lower our level of spirituality.
What really happened with the Spies? Was there really any need to spy out a land that G-D told us was 'Milk and Honey.' Of course not, so what really happened.
It was not HaShem who Wanted the Spies.Nor was it Moshe who truly wanted them.We see this in the first two verses of this Parsha when HaShem says,' Shelach Lecha,' which means ' Send for you,' not for Me , HaShem. HaShem didn't Want this at all. It was the people who came to Moshe and continued to bother him after they had just had a confident win in the battle in Hormah.They felt so overconfident that they felt their own abilities were what won the battle,instead of admitting it was HaShem,thus thinking very physically and this caused them to continue doing things physically, by wanting to do a physical thing and not trust HaShem Spiritually, so they wanted to physically check the land for themselves.They had it already in mind that they would slander the land , before they even left and this is proven by their names for within their names were clues to this.They enjoyed a life of little responsibility, which would have been the case had they entered and they themselves feared the battles.So they approached Moshe who told them of the beauty of the land and that they should trust HaShem, but they spoke him down and insisted that he should first check with HaShem if they could go,hoping to find a way to go , using their given free choice . But HaShem was very against it. Thus said HaShem , 'Shelach Lecha ' ,' Send for you,' not for Me. How sad it is how this turned out. 
It was only two of the Spies Yehoshuah ( whom Moshe had added a letter to his name to strengthen his resolve against the Spies,for his name was originally Hosheah) and Kalev , who stood against the slander of the Spies and it was only these two holy men who praised the land while the other ten slandered it. 
They described their own selves as grasshoppers in their own eyes, not in the eyes of the three giants (Achiman,Shaishay and Talmay as our Midrash tells us ) who lived there but in their own eyes. They had completely lost faith in G-D and thus felt small in their own eyes.
When HaShem Heard their hurtful words calling this beautiful Gift He was Giving them, 'a land that devours its inhabitants,' that was as far as the immortality would be allowed to go,for this Land was everything but. It is a Land Flowing with Milk and Honey, a land where HaShem's Love and Watchful Eyes are always upon it, a land of sweetness, unlike any , this physical World could compare to . The actions of the Spies caused the people to fear and cry in their tents for no reason for HaShem would have been with them to allow them to miraculously take possession of the land, yet on this night - the Ninth of Av,the people lost faith in G-D and so, on this night, when there was no reason to be pained, so did this night become a night of suffering, only to end when Moshiach's time arrives.
For every year from this time ,in the Wilderness till they got to the land, at least 15 000 of the people would dig their graves and die on this night, the Ninth of Av . It was only on the fortieth year when the people neared the Land of Canaan again, that the people saw they never died. Thinking they had mistaken the date, they continued to lie in the graves they had dug waiting for themselves to die.They repeated this action for the next 6 nights until the 15 of Av, till the Full Moon appeared where they saw now that they had not mistaken the date and so they realized the Decree had been lifted.To this day we mourn on the Ninth of Av and celebrate on the 15 th of Av to rejoice at the lifting of the Decree.
How different is what happened here in this event of the Spies , to what we read of the two spies,that were sent to spy out Yericho , that brought back a favorable report of the land, saying the exact opposite of what ten of the spies said , in this Parsha.
Sadly, after the Decree was given, some still tried to enter the land , not listening to Moshe and they were killed by the Amelekites and Canaanites.
It is interesting that the word used in this Parsha for 'Spy out' is ' 'Vayaturu,' which has within it the word 'Yoter' which means ' More,' Thus the Spies should have found ' More' Beauty to the land, yet they chose purposefully not to see it , due to their own wishes,needs and failings, which brings about an interesting point. We have all heard how some people see a half-filled cup as 'Half' empty,' while others see it as 'half-full.' It all depends on our eyes and perspective. HaShem Created for us a beautiful World, as was the land of Canaan beautiful,so much 'Yoter' - 'More ' beautiful than could even be described,yet the Spies only chose to see negativity . Such is the basis of Loshon Horah .How we choose to see people and things is how we end up reacting. Truly , only G-D Knows all and if we learn to have complete faith in HaShem, all will look sweet. So often it is our perspectives we need to change . We don't need to ever spy out tomorrow or any Gift that HaShem Gives us. All we need to do is trust HaShem and He Will Take Care of all things .
Never must we forget that all we have and are given, is from Him . Had the Spies remembered that , they would have not just trusted themselves, but the Beautiful Creator Who had Taken them out of bondage, Split the Yam Suf - The Reed Sea , Spoken to them directly on Har Sinai and constantly watched over them in the Wilderness with His Clouds of Glory.
Tomorrow is already Made. Trust HaShem for HaShem to Take Care of Tomorrow and put yourself always in HaShem's Loving Care.Follow His Mitzvot and wear Them as a mantle as we wear the Tzitzis and know for sure that HaShem Created all , from the Beginning of Creation,until it will have reached where it needs to go. 
With Love to HaShem, I wish HaShem with Love. A Very Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with Love and to all, a very sweet and beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love.