Either Way

 A final thought about Shelach, before we move onto the bombshell that Korach is set to be.

There is something so beautiful about how the tzitzit are described.  Specifically, the idea is that someone should use their eyes to look at the tzitzit so that they do not stray after their eyes (and their heart).

The eyes are used for both the straying and the teshuva - the return, the fixing.

The same object - the same thing - sometimes even the same words - can be used for good, or can be used for bad.  I still think, in contravention to some of the Hasidic rabbis, that there is no "waste" in this world - and, I suppose, there is nothing purely holy as well.  Each has the capacity for both, and can go either way.

Will it be used to draw closer from H' or to withdraw further away from H'?

The answer is solely in the free will of each and every moment.