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The response to seeing an unfaithful woman's punishment was to become a Nazir - abstaining from wine, haircutting, and various other things to preempt him from following the same path. But wouldn't we assume the reaction to witnessing such gruesome consequences would in itself be a deterrent? Rabbi Kirzner discusses the far ranging effects what we see has on us, and the Nazir's underlying lack of appreciation of physical and spiritual synthesis.
The Jews that lived to be freed from Egypt and subsequently wander in the desert were known to be the greatest generation that ever lived. So how can we understand their strange request for meat, and their desire to eat it even when it promised death? A great man's desire to achieve ethereal spiritual levels through his own hard work, without any help from G-d seems to make sense, though we may be far from it. How can understanding that it is the wrong path to take hold the key to understanding where they went wrong?
As we grow spiritually, we run into a great challenge. Won't following G-d's instructions to the letter cause a loss of identity and self? The paradoxical answer we learn from the story of the spies - although not understanding the full depth of what we're doing may seem to be a denial of individuality, in truth it will bring us in touch with our more developed self. How is this so?
Isn't praying for anything 515 times a bit extreme? And what is really so important about entering the Land of Israel that prompted Moshe to plead to God to such an extent? Hear a fascinating description of the potential relationship we are able to forge with God, and how to appreciate such an effort even if your pleas seem to go unanswered.
