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The Torah continues that Israel is a land which "God cares for ... the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year" (11:12). One can be of two minds about this. There are those who would probably prefer that God not be looking over their shoulders, so to speak. In fact, R. Meir of Rothenburg (13th century) wrote that sinners should stay away: it is one thing to sin outside of Israel, but quite another to rebel against the King inside His own palace! At first glance, R. Meir’s statement contradicts a midrash which quotes God as saying: "Even if they profane it, would that they were in their Land!" But there is no contradiction. On the individual level, sinners should stay away; but as a nation Israel is the only place for the Jewish people.
God’s special attention to the Land of Israel boils down to this: The destiny of the Jewish people was, is and will be forged by what happens there. No place else on earth can make that claim.
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Hosha'ana Rabba FLYDUBAI & HOSHANA RABBA- ANI VAHU HOSHIA NA- I & HIM SAVE US
"Ani vaHu Hoshia Na", "I and Him, Save Us". We don't just pray to Him, but we also pray to and for ourselves that we should emulate and educate our children to have that instinctive altruism with which He created the world. President Trump seemed amused about Yaniv Hayon, our PLUMBER who confidently worked with G-d like Superman (he learned from a pilot on a TV show!) to save 174 lives on the Dubai hijacking, but we in Israel are totally accustomed already 78 years to our plumbers, teachers, garbage-men, rabbis, farmers & doctors being Hashem's shlichim! This is what Zionism is about.
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
