Branding - This is the פרשה that is not simply transitional but changes מדבר from transition into הבדלה, sharply defining a change in paradigm by the loss of a generation and attributing that to the events of the מרגלים which continue on in the הפטרה and continue on in a very personal level of ולא תתורו way which becomes the nature of personal level – with the לא תתורו of the other פרשה – לב ועינים של המרגלים as רש"י says bringing us back to the beginning. In that case the nature of the difference of יוצאי מצרים לנכנסים לארץ was their susceptibility to the changing of accessibility to data that was theirs! What was required was getting beyond מוציא שם רע –not לשון הרע in terms of "saying something bad about "ארץ ישראל – the point was here as comes out by גדליה how to relate to the facts not what they are – that is the question of שמות which is the stress throughout both in terms of גאולה ומגילת רות and שבעה עשר בתמוז where that takes place or here changing the name of יהושע or the giving over of שמות המרגלים: גמרא על שם מעשיהם נקראו – the understanding of what כתר שם טוב is and how it relates to the other שמות defined in the משכן –up until now! We just had the מנורה relationship to חכמה!
This is פרשה of power of שם how it relates to the ability for an individual on an individual level to live in a world of conflicting data very confusing world of self-organization in which the way the individual is capable of maintaining straightness of his own relationships separating out elements of data from the relationship that emerges from that data is the source* of freedom honesty dignity decency ישרות ישר בעיניו not being fooled the mistakes בית דין here in terms of the עגל and the final once and for all recognition of how this פרשה is the conclusion for the first time: in which תשעה באב concludes שבעה עשר בתמוז how all of our initial responses in time of עגל what went wrong initially in הר סיני suddenly seen to be nothing but misinterpretations of events that stand on their own that remain true on their own, and were nothing but problems in our own ability to access them whether in terms of the absurdity of the עגל itself the מחולות העגל or here the conclusion of thatפקידה the loss of everything in חורבן because of the unwillingness to look at the facts in the face גמרא גיטין אשרי אדם מפחד תמיד look at the facts in the face deal with the facts do not change your relationship to them (גדליה בן אחיכם)– this is what we deal with throughout this פרשה and the theme that integrates the various things that appear on the surface "completely unrelated" all these issues become one thematically here!

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