The Power of Friendship: How the Twelve Spies and Your Social Circle Shape Your Spiritual Journey

0:02 If you close your eyes, you can imagine it. You can go back in time and get a feeling of the emotion in the Israelite camp as Clalius Srails most robust and holy champions of the Torah are preparing themselves for a journey of a lifetime. The twelve Miraglum, the twelve spies, the Ramban tells us, are listed in our parasha, based on their greatness. They're godless. These are our best players, shalach, lecho, anoshim. You can feel in the camp how, extending, our best guys, our greatest rabbis, perhaps the children and the mothers, are waving goodbye to our saintly soldiers, our anoshim, these spies, packing their gamutas, some water and some food.

0:52 Again, they then wave farewell and step on towards their mission. Immediately, you can imagine Yahushua and Kalev are feeling something is going to ride. There's something not quite right. The Pasek tells us, vayava Yad Khevron, that Kalev had slipped away. He understood what was happening. He ran to Marasamach Pelo, to Davenakiv Raitzadikim. Something wasn't right and he prayed his face off until it turned black, as Al-Telah was to save him. Please save me, almighty, from the atzastrishayim, from the evil and wicked and deceitful council of these miraglum. And why, why? what was he praying for?

1:32 Why did Yahushua need a Yud to be added to his name to be saved from them. What was so perilous? It's clear that the Koyach of the Khevron Ruh, his friends, a bad group, is remarkably and astonishingly powerful Powerful in the negative. It sounds like this minion of people with ill, with cruel intentions. It wouldn't have been enough. Kalev could not rest and rely upon his own internal drive. He needed to run to Khev Raitzadikim to be saved from evil friends. Yahushua need new letters to be added to his name.

2:13 It's something that's not fun to talk about, but perhaps not talked about enough. Everybody's good and everyone's nice, but I once actually heard a piece of Kha'kha'ana as proven true in my life That you're always going to be the middle of your five best friends, in their fear, in heaven, in their money making, in their popularity. You're always in the middle because we always kind of hang out with the people a little bit above, a little below, to feel comfortable. But the group that you are with is astonishingly powerful, and Rabbi Rukham tells us that he can't even believe that as he's gotten older. How many people have been swept astray from the path of Torah because of evil friends?

2:57 How rare is it to get a mission that tells us Harchek me, shokhenra. You cannot not have bad friends, bad neighbors, but distance. The same way, you're Harchek, midvarsheker, tearchak. You run away from these things. Everybody is nice, everybody is kind and everybody means well, but you should take note that things that are pulling you down perhaps Moyshav leitsim, and things that are not, and people that do not have your best, your best outcome in mind. Choose to hang out with better individuals, choose to find a good friend and perhaps let's look upon this in the good side And the bright side of the moon and go get yourself real friends, a group of people that will push you to become that much better and closer to the only.