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magine the scene at the have made him more particubeginning of this week’s porlaristic and less universalistic. tion: 12 leaders in Israel are He notes this in Nefesh Harav preparing for their 40-day trip to (306-307), spy out the Holy Land. Initially, Joshua was a very As they complete preparapublic individual. He was tions, Moses approaches the involved in the world; he intergroup and pulls aside acted with everyone. He was the leader from the very integrated with the life tribe of Ephraim. of the average person. For They have a brief, but this reason, Moses prayed important converthat Joshua would distance sation; during those from them and that he few moments, Moses Rabbi Jared would be his own person. Anstandig changes this man’s And so, Moshe appended name. Though the the yud because that letParshat Ephraimite was given ter reflects particularism, Shelach the name Hoshea at against universalism. Lecha: birth, Moses adds Anticipating the negaNumbers the small letter yud, tive peer pressure of the 11 13;1-15:41; changing his name to other spies, Moses changed Joshua Yehoshua, or Joshua in Joshua’s name to emphasize 2;1-24. English. that Joshua must not be a As readers of the Torah, we universalist at this juncture. are not unfamiliar with name Now, Joshua needed to be an changes. Even Sarah underwent individual. He needed to have a name change. Genesis 17:15 confidence in what is right and tells us that though she was born commit, unwaveringly, to it. Sarai, “her name will be Sarah.” While his 11 other comrades This change, like Joshua’s, is give a terrible report of the land, subtle. God simply replaced the Joshua needs to be steadfast in letter yud in Sarai with the letter his opinion. hey. Ultimately, there is no “right Though the Torah gives no way” to interact with the world. explanation for this, the comThe best path for us is to find mentator Rashi offers a sugthe middle path, in which we gestion: “You shall not call her successfully balance the worlds name Sarai which means “my of Joshua (the yud) and particuprincess” — a princess to me but larism with Sarah (the hey) and not to others — but Sarah, in a universalism. more general sense, shall be her It is a difficult balance to name: She shall be princess over strike and perhaps, at times, it all.” Rashi suggests that Sarah’s can be an especially lonely path, birthname, Sarai, has a particBut, when we are able to live ularistic connotation. Her new with the yud and hey, we end up name, Sarah, is universalistic. living with yud-hey, the two-letRabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik ter name of God. notes the connection here. If Rabbi Jared Anstandig formerly served removing the letter yud made as the rabbi of the Orthodox community Sarah more universalistic and in Ann Arbor; now he will be a Sgan Rosh less particularistic, then assignBeit Midrash of Beit Midrash Zichron Dov ing the letter yud to Joshua must in Toronto, Canada.
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