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Today we traveled (in the procession with the new sefer Torah) through the streets of Kiryat Moshe, thereby sanctifying the streets and Hashem’s Name. This helps neutralize the negative events that occur in our streets – the throwing of stones and the weakening of the public sanctity of Shabbat.
On the one hand, there are non-Jews around the world who object to seeing us in Eretz Yisrael, but there are also, tragically, many Jews who want to uproot the use of Hashem’s Name and defile the sanctity of Jerusalem, the Holy City. They want the sounds of public buses [on Shabbat], viewing them as the harbingers of "freedom and enjoyment." But this "freedom" opposes the spirit of Judaism, weakens the feelings of kinship in the country, and tramples the crown of the sanctity of Jerusalem. It also provides fuel for the actions of the stone throwers. When people desecrate sanctity, we do not have a real Jerusalem, value for the Nation of Israel, and the connection between the Land and the nation.
Our walking through the streets with "the ark" sanctifies them and returns the crown of sanctity and purity. We proclaim: "Any vessel made to hurt us will not succeed," not the stone throwers and not those who, Heaven forbid, try to rip the sefer Torah’s parchment.
In recent parshiyot, we read of the four languages of liberation that Hashem promised we would have from Egypt. The next pasuk says: "I will bring you to the Land …" (Shemot 6:8). We are not living up to that gift sufficiently. Some of us are willing to relinquish parts of Eretz Yisrael and believe and dream that this will bring them tranquility and peace within the reduced borders. They do not understand that Eretz Yisrael cannot be divided, just like Am Yisrael cannot. They want to uproot Hashem’s Name from our midst, but they will not succeed. Somewhere down the line, they or their descendants will repent, because, as Jews, they have a nucleus of sanctity in their midst, waiting to show expression.
Before we came to the Land, we first had to receive the Torah. There is no Eretz Yisrael, nor is there an Am Yisrael, without Torah, as these values share a unifying force. Ripping away one is like ripping away the others. For this reason, nowadays, those whose connection to Torah Judaism is weak are the ones who want to give up on parts of Eretz Yisrael. If we strengthen ourselves in Torah and honor it [as we did today], we will "come to the Land."
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(based on ruling 83037.1 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
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(based on ruling 83037.1 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
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