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8. Moses was the phase of the sun, ZA, and wanted to enter the land. The Creator told him, “Moses, when the sunlight comes, the moon, Malchut, is incorporated in it and her phase is invisible. Now since you are the sun, when you enter the land, which is the moon, Malchut, how will the sun and the moon stand together? After all, the moon shines only when the sun sets. But now you cannot enter the land. If you want to know of it, send out people for you, for yourself, so you will know.”

Moses knew he would not enter the land. He wanted to know of it before he departed, so he sent those spies. Since they did not reply to him properly, he did not send others at a different time until the Creator showed it to him, as it is written, “Go up into this Mount Abarim, and see the land.” It is also written, “And the Lord showed him the whole of the land.” He showed him not only this; rather, he showed Moses all the leaders who are destined to rise in each and every generation.

10. Since Moses started sending, he said to them, “Is there a tree in it”? Can it be that he did not know if there are trees in it? Rather, Moses said so, “Is there a tree in it,” I know I will come in there. The tree is the tree of life, and it was not there but in the Garden of Eden of the earth. Moses said, “If that tree is in there, I will enter there; and if not, I cannot enter.”