The sin of the meraglim wasn’t just a tactical error. It was a rejection of the one of the greatest gifts Hashem had promised His people — Eretz Yisrael. Hashem had described it as a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the land that Hashem watches over from the beginning of the year to the end. But when the spies returned, they couldn’t see it.

They came back with stories of fear, doubt, and danger. And it wasn’t just the spies — the entire nation wept that night. They believed the worst.

Yehoshua and Calev tried to remind them: “טוֹבָה הָאָרֶץ מְאֹד מְאֹד” — “The land is very, very good.” But no one listened.

But here’s the deeper question:
If Hashem says the land is good, how could we ever see otherwise?

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Seeing Through a Warped Lens

The answer lies in how we see.
The meraglim saw funerals and assumed the land was cursed. But Chazal tell us Hashem was doing them a kindness — distracting the locals with mourning so they wouldn’t notice the spies. The problem wasn’t what was happening.
The problem was how they perceived it.

We don’t see things as they are —
We see them as we are.

They went in already afraid. Already negative. Already doubting.
And so they interpreted everything through a lens of fear.
They even said: “We were like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and so we were in their eyes.”

When you see yourself as small, you assume the world sees you that way too.

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The Power of Bitachon: A Clear Lens

Bitachon changes how we see.
When we trust that Hashem is good, that His plans are good, and that His promises are good — we train ourselves to see what He sees.

Hashem sees the land as precious.
He watches over it “from the beginning of the year to the end.”
He called it a land flowing with milk and honey.
The place where the Avot walked.
Where two Batei Mikdash stood.
Where the third will soon be rebuilt.

Everything in Eretz Yisrael is precious not because we see it —
But because Hashem said so.

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It’s Not Empty — It’s You

Moshe said about the Torah:
“It is not an empty thing for you, for it is your life.”
Chazal explain: If something in Torah feels empty, the deficiency is in you, not in it.

The same is true for Eretz Yisrael.
If we don’t see its beauty, holiness, and goodness — it’s not a flaw in the land.
It’s a flaw in us.

We must train our eyes to see what Hashem sees.
To speak lovingly about His land.
To fall in love with it, like Calev and Yehoshua did, who begged the nation not to rebel:
“Tovah ha’aretz meod meod!”

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Geula Vision

We live in a time when we can walk its streets, learn its Torah, see its hills.
The Geula is unfolding.
But to be part of it, we have to train our eyes to see what Hashem sees.
Not fear. Not flaws. Not complaints.
But purpose. Promise. Potential.When we train our eyes to see what Hashem sees,
We begin to see the Geula.