Responsa for Shevuot 94:5

(דברים א, כז) ותרגנו באהליכם שמעון בן טרפון אומר תרתם וגיניתם באהלו של מקום

And ye murmured in your tents.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. I, 27. ubdr, idr ubd r, ru, vbd');">⁹</span> Simeon B'Tarfon says: You spied out and put to shame the tent of the Omnipresent.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Heb. (from , to murmur rebelliously) is here divided into : you have spied out (from) , and put to shame (from , pi'el) your tent, i.e., the tent (land) which the Omnipresent had destined for you; you have rejected His offer of the Holy Land.');">¹⁰</span>

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