OU TORAH YU TORAH and NAALEH.COM Grave’s Guardianship By Shira Smiles

Adapted by Channie Koplowitz Stein The incident of the spies, their negative report about the Land, and the dire consequences for the generation in the desert are well known. Of the twelve spies Moshe sent, with Hashem’s permission, only two did not succumb to the lure of speaking negatively about the Land, Calev ben Yehudah and Yehoshua bin Nun, and they indeed merited entering the Land after forty years. Yehoshuah received a blessing to strengthen him from Moshe Rabbenu, while Calev went to Chevron to pray for strength at the tombs of our patriarchs at Meorat Hamachpelah.