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Every nation has an angel that represents it on the level of ideas. The individuals who make up a nation are always changing; yet the nation continues to exist as long as the idea that unites it remains. Life in every land other than the Land of Israel (Taanit 10a) is sustained by God through the mediation of the particular, limited national idea that defines the nation and its land. As a result, even individual existence is colored by the limiting nature of the life-sustaining forces outside of the Land of Israel.
Yosef in Egypt had replaced the angel of Egypt, had subjugated the Egyptian national idea, becoming the conduit of a bounty not tainted by the Egyptian national character. Perhaps he was attempting to soften the blow to his father of leaving Israel when he asked his brothers to inform Yaakov of his role as "the ruler of all Egypt" (Bereishit 45:9).
But Yosef’s rule was both tenuous and temporary. Only productive life in the Land of Israel can establish a relationship with God undiminished by the particularistic national influences of the Galut (Shut Avnei Nezer, Yoreh Deah, no. 554).
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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)
