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Two Kinds of Fear (Rabbi Sacks on Shelach Lecha, Covenant & Conversation)

The Office of Rabbi Sacks

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The Terror of the Israelites

The Israelites wanted to spend their lives in the closest possible proximity to God. They were eating manna from heaven and drinking water from a miraculous well. What they didn't understand was that God seeks 'a dwelling in the lower worlds' Much of the terror is about things not conventionally seen as religious at all, he says.

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