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Ep. 272 · Shelach · 12 min · 2023-06-08

The Main Event: Heart vs. Brain

What do the spies have to do with tzitzis? Rashi points out that the same word opens and closes Parshas Shelach: the meraglim go "v'yasuru" the land, and tzitzis warn "lo sasuru acharei levavchem v'acharei eineichem." And if Chazal say the eye sees first and then the heart desires, why does the pasuk put the heart first?Rabbi Asaf Prisman takes up both questions, with a Gemara in Sanhedrin on two letters in Eicha that are out of order. Anyone who has watched the same scene as someone else and seen the opposite story will recognize it, and it changes how far you trust your own eyes.