I received this e-mail from Jaymatt
Gut Voch to all,
Don’t ask, but I can only e-mail, so Mod-39 and Mod-72, whomever gets this 1st kindly post this for me.
In Parshas Shelach, We see that the Miraglim are told to search to analyze the trees and the fruits. Being that this passuk is phrased rather oddly, Rashi uses it to learn out that tree means an Adam Gadol. I saw in the Tallelei Oros (forgot who said it) asking how to learn the passuk according to Rashi.
Rashi says that the spies were sent to discover the nature of the fruit, and in what merit they grow that way. If the spies found tzaddikim in the land, then they could conclude that it’s in the z’chus of the tzaddikim which created wonderful fruit. However, if they found wonderful huge fruit without any tzaddikim, then it must be that the land itself is blessed.
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