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Yaakov Ben Behora
According to the Ramban, a verse in Mas’ei (33:53) serves as the source for the mitzvah to live in Eretz Israel (33:53). That verse is followed almost immediately by the warning in verse 55: "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the Land before you, those of whom you leave shall be pins in your eyes and thorns in your side; they will harass you upon the Land in which you dwell."
The Talmud (Sotah 34a) relates that right before entering the land, Yehoshua addressed the Jewish People as follows: "Be aware that you are crossing the Jordan only on the condition that you expel the inhabitants from the land." The Torah Temimah explains that Yehoshua read the Israelites the verses from Mas’ei so that they clearly understood the terms of their "legally binding" contract with God - maintaining the land is absolutely conditioned on driving away its current inhabitants!
If we had 2 million, not 200,000, living on the land God gifted to us in 1967, the previous inhabitants would no longer be there to, as the Midrash Hagadol warns, "in the end harass you and rejoice in your misfortune." Likewise, the events originally scheduled for Tishah B'Av this year could never have become the newest addition to the litany of Jewish misery. If we want to reverse this course, we must simply fulfill our side of the contract and make aliyah!
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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)
