Parsha Shlach (week of 6/6-6/12)

[iitb]

Bamidbar (Numbers) 13:1 - 15:41 (http://www.chabad.org/parshah/TorahReading.asp?AID=45586)(chabad.org)
Haftarah - Yehoshua (Joshua) 2:1-24 (http://www.chabad.org/parshah/TorahReading.asp?AID=45586&name=Haftorah) (chabad.org)
FFOZ recommended Gospel reading - John 7-8 (http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&passage=john+7-8&version=NASB) (biblegateway.com)

[Henaynei]

Readers Digest (actually Chabad.org) nutshell version of the p'rasha....there's a lot in here.............

Moses sends twelve spies (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=81319) to the Land of Canaan. Forty days later they return, carrying a huge cluster of grapes (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=2776), a pomegranate and a fig, to report on a lush and bountiful land. But ten of the spies warn that the inhabitants of the land are giants (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=1484) and warriors "more powerful than we"; only Caleb (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=3230) and Joshua (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=43046) insist that the land can be conquered, as G-d has commanded.
The people weep that they'd rather return to Egypt. G-d decrees that Israel's entry into the Land shall be delayed forty years (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=2962), during which time that entire generation will die out in the desert. A group of remorseful Jews storm the mountain on the border of Land and are routed by the Amalekites (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=2283) and Canaanites.

The laws of the menachot (meal (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=2162), wine (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=2095) and oil (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=2815) offerings) are given, as well as the mitzvah to consecrate a portion of the dough (challah (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=1095)) to G-d when making bread. A man violates the Shabbat by gathering sticks (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=2948) and is put to death. G-d instructs to place fringes (tzitzit (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=1319)) on the four corners of our garments so that we should remember (http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=1322) to fulfill the mitzvot (Divine commandments).

[Henaynei]

any one read this p'rasha?

[Talmidah]

any one read this p'rasha?
Yeppers

[iitb]

I've been trying to read the whole thing on Saturday night, so that I know what the 8 billion commentaries I'm subscribed to are talking about...without waiting until Shabbat to read them. ;)

So, yeah.