They Did Not Admit Their Sin

They Did Not Admit Their Sin

Similarly, it is related that Rov once came to the Imrei Emes zy”a and asked why Hashem did not accept the nation’s teshuva after the sin of the meraglim. The Imrei Emes answered that although the pasuk says that they admitted that they sinned and it seems to say that they accepted to properly serve Him in the future, we actually see from the pasuk that their confession was not sincere. They said that “Hashem said that we have sinned”, but they never actually admitted on their own that they sinned.