Send out some men to spy out the land of Canaan (13:2) We learn that the spies and the people were punished for loshon hara. But, wasn't the Jew's lack of Bitochon a much greater transgression? We learn from this that the sin of corrupt character traits manifested by speaking evil without any gain leads to the more grave sin of denying Hashem's power. (Drash Moshe) R' Nachman of Breslov quoted the verse "Niftachu hashamayim vo'ereh maros Elokim" / "the heavens were opened and I saw visions of G-d." (Yechezkel 1:1) The anagram of the first letters of the five Hebrew words spelling this phrase form the word emunah / faith. When a person has faith, he sees. (Torah Gems)
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