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Yaakov Ben Behora
It was only because of the sin of the spies that Eretz Israel could only be conquered through war. Had the Jewish people firmly believed that the Land of Israel was theirs, there would have been no need to engage in battle. The spies sinned in that they weren’t sure that Israel was for them. They wanted to check it out first. The Canaanite peoples intuitively sensed this lack of attachment to the Land as an invitation to wage war against us and dispute our Divine inheritance. Had the Jewish people been absolute in their conviction that Israel belongs only to the Jews, than no one on Earth would have dared to dispute our claim to the land.
Our rabbi's teach that this very lack of conviction and certainty that Eretz Israel belongs to the Jewish people was the underlying cause for the destruction and exile, and all of the calamities that came in their wake (Ta’anit 29b).
To our great dismay, this same lack of conviction regarding our rights to Israel exists to this very day, both in the Land of Israel and the Diaspora alike.
At this time of great uncertainty, danger, and upheaval in our Land, let us hope and pray that we will rise up to a true unwavering conviction that Eretz Israel is ours, and thereby deserve the consoling prophecy of Zacharia: "Thus says the L-rd of hosts ... the fast of the fifth [the month of Av] shall become times of joy and gladness" (Zecharia 8:19). Amen.
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