Related%20passage for Arakhin 64:32

חד מינייהו ר' אלעזר בר יוסי אמרה

That is why Scripture reproved Joshua, for in all other passages it is spelt: Jehoshua, but here, Joshua.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For his failure to implore the Lord to remove the passion for idolatry from the heart of the people. Just as with Abram the enlargement of his name into 'Abraham' was an expression of divine approval, so did this diminution of Jehoshua into Joshua express divine disapproval. The reason for Joshua's failure to implore the Lord to remove the passion for idolatry was his assumption that he possessed the land in its pristine holiness, so that it would in itself help Israel to overcome its idolatrous tendencies.');">¹⁴</span>

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