The Fears Of The Spies

This discourse was delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbat Parshat Shelach, 5725 (1965). The Spies described the Land as 'a land which devours its inhabitants', and the Zohar links this to the 'abnegation of the Land'. The discourse explains that in the process of the shattering of the vessels, Malchut alone was not broken because of its quality of nullification, and this same quality of humble receptivity is what the Spies feared and misunderstood.