Why did the Israelites in the desert

Cry so much?

And wasn't it the MEN who cried, 

Fearing the upcoming battles

With the Canaanites who had moved into Israel?

 

Rabeinu Bachya explained

(A thousand years ago)

 

That of our male forebears in the desert

After hearing the 10 (of 12) spies

Who Feared conquerring the land:

 

Some cried,

Some complained,

And

Some demanded new leaders (not Moses)

and returning to Egypt

And

Their punishment was that

They all died in the desert

 

(But their souls weŕe kept as part of the Soul of The people of Israel

AND THEIR CHILDREN INHERITED ISRAEL)

 

Grandma was 12 in Iraq.

She was part of the Jewish Underground

Trying to save our people from

Arab pogroms

 

Last night her daughter asked what a 12 year old was doing in the Underground,

And she told us:

 

She was delivering kosher food

To the prison

 

Where Jewish prisoners were being tortured!

 

Thank G-d for brave Daughters of Israel!