Veyeilech 5786 - Desire for Eretz Yisroel to Connect to Hashem

parishes. We have over here um small para and it's there's an introductory phrase structurally pik about it says when a lot of difficulties will be full the will be testimony I know that is in them before I am bringing them into so um there's something there about about the pik that is sort of inserting something that's strange. Um Kaju says I will um you know I'm going to write this Shira which will speak about K's role doing bad because I know that inside deep there is something there that is a um a root of things that are bad. Okay. But what does it say before I bring them to the land that I swore? It's it's right now. Yes. So was it what does that have to do with the bad with the root of that's in them that will later blossom to be bad? That's really something that begs of itself to be answered. And this foreigner over here says um says an explanation. This foreigner explains that this is specifically referring to something bad with regard to meaningu. And the truth is that the as a whole and everything focus around Israel. We're living at Israel. We do what's not appropriate. Exiles us, expels us. Part of the expulsion, exile is terrible things beset us. But really the focus is we're expelled from Israel and everything uh becomes bad. So the um this says what is the bad what is the horror that they have? His says they are not coming to in order to serve me but to fulfill their own cravings and so on. So let's uh talk about this point the let's bring out the points as far as making because a is very very central to our yiddish kite and understanding what is is going to be um is is going to be very very important to to knowing what we what is that we want from is a beautiful country it's a country that is fertile productive many many positive virtues physically and a person can um can can crave for that reason. Now the difference is so if if that's the reason why we crave Israel, we look at Hashem's Torah and mitzvah as conditions maybe. But whenever whenever you have a deal that the other side has made conditions on it, time phrase those conditions. That's the usual. I didn't want to do this, but I had no choice. I agreed to it. So I do it but that does not stand the test of time. But the and the main the major issue is this is not at all what is about Israel is the country as far says is the country where Clius can serve in the best way possible. It's the platform and there are many illusions to that in other uh the famous Ramban that speaks about that the main fulfillment the mitzvah is in there's a dashan it's in um Josha kamishi where he speaks about as a place where the soul can cleave now none of these are automatic IC um sort of passive process person doesn't walk into and zoom it becomes a sadic and a novi and cleaves like it's opportunity just like the most fertile land in the world if you don't plow water tend to it doesn't grow anything also like that but it's the place where a person can reach the highest level inn whether it's his um his mitzvah whether it is in aesh whether it's fulfilling all the mitzvah and and so ones so is giving us um is giving us this role to realize the the aspiration of myi in my arena he forged a covenant with us and made us his people. His people means not that we get special protects here. We may but that's not that's not the core. His people means the people whose lives and being is there to bring out the divine in this world by Torah, by mitzvah, by everything else. We forged at bond and akadesh said this can only be fully realized and developed in Israel for whatever reason it is made the world a place where there are many places where the good deeds of Torah mitzvah are very important but they can't find their full fulfillment over there. It's not the place that is that has what it takes to bring that out. Isol is the place and that's why um we crave and that's why we want it so much. Therefore what we if that would be our attitude then if we would come to no matter how beautiful and lush it is that's only the backdrop. It's like if I go to a business meeting where a very important deal is about to take place, I don't really get don't don't don't look into the food, the decor, whatever it is, I'm I'm focused on on the deal I'm going to do. It's very good that other things there. very happy that it's that it, you know, the the the uh there's something about the atmosphere that is I'm very amendable to to to doing business, but but it's not something that I really care about. I I will not not I will not forget to come to the meeting where I'm supposed to get the investment from the person because I really like the pool or or or or something else. If we come to Israel with that attitude, then we have the best of both worlds. We're able to serve our kadesh bar um with an intensity and and and a and and a certain um purity that we don't have any other place. And the physical conditions allow to do it as unworthy as possible. Our enemies are are not have been weakened. The food is plentiful and everything bad is good. But Misha is telling Israel, we're coming. We're standing on the coat. This is this is this whole speech over here. I realize and I recognize that deep down there's something else going on. It's not just the desire and the chuka to be with, but you're enthralled by the land and its beauty and its potential and so on, which means that in due time you will sort of um drift away and all this will befall you and Hazen is warning you. So I guess this is this is these are words being said upon entering Israel and it's words that we need to to keep with us in helping us understand what is first and foremost the place where it's possible to connect in a way that no other place will allow for us. That has to be our kavana who promised us that if that's why we're there at Israel will do its share in in in in giving us the amenities we need to make it happen whether it's peace with the enemies whether it's food econ the economy and everything else but those are secondary if we enter so with that attitude we always stay connected and we don't stray at