Caleb is a common English name that parents might give their son after the outstanding tribal leader Calev whom Moses sent to “spy out the land of Canaan” from Kadesh Barne’a in “the wilderness of Paran,” along with eleven more Israelite leaders; each tribe and its chief (with Calev being the head leader of the tribe of Judah).  We read about this historical and monumentally failed mission in this week’s Torah portion (according to the diaspora calendar).

Only two of the tribal princes, Caleb and Joshua, courageously stood their ground proving to be faithful to their task of mere intel gathering without........

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