## Da'at Zekenim on Numbers Chapter 13

###### Da'at Zekenim on Numbers 13:2:1
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**איש אחד וגו'.**אך משבט לוי לא הושלח מרגל לפי שלא היה להם חלק בארץ:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
'איש אחד, איש אחד וגו, “one man each, etc.” no spy was dispatched from the tribe of Levi, seeing that this tribe would not receive an ancestral portion of land in the Holy Land.


###### Da'at Zekenim on Numbers 13:11:1
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**למטה יוסף למטה מנשה.**כאן שקליה יוסף למטרפסיה לפי שהוציא דבה ולכך הוזכר כאן על מטה מנשה שהיה ממוציאי הדבה ולא על מטה אפרים שלא הוציא ובכל מקומות הוא נזכר על מטה אפרים:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
למטה יוסף, למטה מנשה, “from the tribe of Joseph, the tribe of M’nashe; here “M’nashe is mentioned first, as the representative of that tribe who would prove to be one who slandered the Holy Land together with the majority of the spies, whereas Joshua, the representative of Ephrayim, the other half of the tribe of Joseph, although the favourite of Yaakov (Genesis 48,19) when he blessed the children of Joseph, was not lumped together with the other spies. (Compare Numbers 1,10, 32, and Numbers 26,28)


###### Da'at Zekenim on Numbers 13:16:1
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**ויקרא משה להושע בן נון יהושע.**מדרש תנחומא מה ראה לקרותו יהושע אלא ראה כלב שנטל שכרו בארץ שנאמר ויבא עד חברון וכתיב במקום אחר ויתנו לכלב את חברון ויהושע נטל חלק עשרה אנשים של מרגלים ולכך הוסיף יו"ד בשמו שעולה עשרה. ולפי שקראה תגר כשנתחלקה משמה של שרי ופרע לה בכאן. וי"א שנתחלקה ה"א בשם שרה וה"א בשם אברהם. ובפ' ואלו נאמרין מסיק שאמר לו משה יה יושיעך מעצת מרגלים:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
ויקרא משה להושע בן נון יהושע, “Moses called (changed) the name of Hoshea to Yehoshua son of Nun. The Midrash Tanchuma, section 6 on this portion, in dealing with this change of name, writes as follows: “what prompted Moses to change the name of Hoshea to Y’hoshua by adding the letter י (equivalent the number ten) to his name? Moses foresaw that Calev, another spy who did receive his ancestral share in the Holy Land received one share, as detailed in the Book of Judges 1,20, seeing he had bothered to make a special detour at Chevron (Numbers 13,22) (“he,” sing. came to Chevron) whereas Joshua, who would lead the people to the Land and conquer it, received ten shares, this was hinted at by the change of his name. [Seeing that Joshua personally did not have any children, looking at the matter technically, although his tribe of Ephrayim, did of course receive their share, perhaps Moses wanted to indicate that he in fact, at least, in the spiritual sense of the word, “inherited” the 10 shares of the Holy Land, that would have become the shares of the other ten spies had they not slandered the land. Ed.] According to the Talmud Yerushalmi tractate Sanhedrin, chapter 2, halachah 6, by adding the letter י at the beginning of his name, so that it began with the two letters spelling the name of G–d, Moses hoped to arm him spiritually against becoming spiritually contaminated by the other ten spies. When Sarah’s name שרי had been changed to שרה, she had lost a letter, i.e. the letter י. Joshua now received this letter. Avraham had the letter ה she had lost, added to his name when that was changed from אברם to אברהם. [Seeing that they both no longer needed these two letters, having died long ago, they were used by Moses as helping Joshua to withstand the brainwashing by the ten spies. Ed.]


###### Da'at Zekenim on Numbers 13:32:1
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**וכל העם אשר ראינו בתוכה.**כלו' מה שהיא אוכלת יושביה לא מפני חלישות שבהם שהרי גבורים משונים הם. ד"א אל תאמרו שמפני רוב אכילה ושתייה שהרי הם אנשי מדות אוכלין במדה ושותין במדה:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
וכל העם אשר ראינו בתוכה אנשי מדות, “and all the people we saw inside it are men of great size.” The spies said that they did not attribute the fact that people seemed to die like flies in that land to their having a weak constitution to start with. Alternate interpretation: “do not think that these people died from excessive drinking and eating; they are very robust persons and appear to eat and drink quite normally.”


###### Da'at Zekenim on Numbers 13:33:1
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**הנפילים.**שכל הרואה אותם מתפלא עליהם. ד"א שכל הרואה אותם מתיירא שלא יפלו עליו:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
הנפילים בני-ענק, “the Nephilim, descendants of Anak (giant);” anyone who took a look at these people would be overawed by them and feel totally inadequate, scared that they would attack him.”