Parashat Shelah: Perception vs reality through the story of 12 spies
Just as the perception created by the promoter in Herzl’s story defeated the reality of a mediocre singer, so did the perception created by the 10 spies defeat reality.
PRESIDENT ZALMAN SHAZAR (R) (author of the poem ‘Where Are You, Caleb?’) meets with German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (later successor of Otto von Bismarck) in Jerusalem, 1966.(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByGOL KALEV