We will delve deeper into the question from the previous lecture – why did the Israelites move south from “Kadesh” towards Eilat and not north – into the land of Canaan? According to the maps, this doesn’t make sense, and according to the Torah, it doesn’t make sense: They had already defeated the king of Arad and the Amalekites who live in the Negev and they are already a new generation that is not afraid of war – so why not go north and enter the land?
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