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This is the second time we are taught this lesson. The first time was when the promise to bring the generation that had left Egypt into the Holy Land was defeated by the sin of the Spies. The attempts to force God’s hand met with utter defeat. Alas, there is nothing inevitable about a particular group of people’s possession of the land. No victories are a sure sign that the promise will be fulfilled through them. We must merit possession of the Land.
In extreme circumstances, God might grant us a place in the Land without merit, to save us and to succor us. But this is not the rule. The rule is that when we do not merit entry into the Land, we will be doomed to see it from afar, without being able to enter. We can desire the Land of Israel with great yearning, yet that does not constitute sufficient merit. No one wanted to enter the Land more than Moshe, yet sin kept him from his desire. To deserve the Land we must become a society of spiritual excellence in all spheres of life, a nation of decency, in government and personal relations. Obsessive concentration on "Eretz Israel" should yield to concentrating on creating a meritorious nation. "Because of our sins, we were exiled from our land."
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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.
