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There were those, who even though they lived a religious lifestyle, did not find their way to Eretz Yisrael. There were those who saw as the goal of Judaism just the idea of spreading the idea of belief in Hashem throughout the world. They did not see a relevance of there being a specific territory to which they needed to be connected. Exile seemed to them to be a natural situation, to the extent that they loved the lands of their exile as their homeland and even saw it as an obligation to give their life for the preservation of these homelands. This duality, which is having a backlash effect, especially in the religious community, in our days as well, weakens our resolve.
This is not the approach of our Rabbis. The essential Judaism and its mitzvot are specifically made for Eretz Yisrael. The vision of a divine nation is incomplete and blemished when we are outside the Land. We lack a real base – a land that is ours – when we are without our own unique homeland and are dependents "at the table of the nations." "The wisdom of the underprivileged is disgraced" (see Kohelet 9:16). Our feeble attempts to lecture the world on matters of ethics are valueless as long as our words are those of a spineless peddler. Eretz Yisrael exists so that we can reveal the idea of godliness in its fullest sense. Through it we can coronate Hashem with everything that we do. We can create a Jewish street, a Jewish village, and a Jewish city.
However, once we get to Eretz Yisrael, that is when we have the obligation to make good on our obligation, or should we call it, our oath. If we do not actualize the type of life of sanctification of Hashem to which we have alluded, then we have simply left the Torah as letters that are floating in air or as a document whose debt is not paid.
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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
