From: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [b-hebrew] Gemara Sotah on the names of the spies
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:14:43 -0400
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Sotah 35
1) WERE THE SPIES RIGHTEOUS OR WICKED
QUESTION: The Gemara expounds the verse, "And they went, and they returned"
(Bamidbar 13:26), and says that "just as the Meraglim returned with evil
plans, when they departed they already had evil intentions." This is also
evident from the Gemara earlier (34b) which says that the names of the
Meraglim (which the Torah lists) hint to the evil intentions they had before
they departed.