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Why was Yaacov not secure with Hashem's promise that He would guard him and return him to this land?
Among the explanations given for Yaakov's concern is that Esav had one merit that Yaakov did not - the merit of living in the Land of Israel. This caused Yaakov to doubt that he could survive a confrontation with his brother.
The Gaon of Vilna infers from the Gemara (Sotah 21) that only a mitzvah could afford Esav protection. Consequently, for Esav, to live in the Land must have been a mitzvah. In other words, when Hashem commanded "lech lecha" this was a commandment that Avraham and all his decendents to leave their land, their birthplace and their parents' home to go to the land chosen by Hashem Himself, the Land of Israel. Since Yaakov was in the process of accomplishing this very same Mitzvah, "Vayetzer lo" must mean that Yaakov was troubled that he had had doubts, that he had been insecure about being protected. For after all, he did have Hashem’s promise; he did have a mitzvah to make aliya, and we might add, he was coming home.
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Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
