Israel: Land of the Jews. Says Who?

as we begin reading the himesh we come across the first passage in the Torah and of course a very well-known Rashi which seems to be so pertinent and so connected to what the Jewish people are going through right now maybe now more than ever yes a question I'm not a bigot Huck why did it all have to start with the ratios why didn't it start with the first Mitzvah given when the Jews were in Egypt and he answers because God wanted the entire world to know that he created the world and that the world belongs to him and that it's up to Hashem to give the world to whoever he wants it could give whatever piece of land he wants to whomever he wants because it is his in essence he gave it to the nations of Canaan for a particular period of time when he felt that they should be there and now he's taking it from them and giving to the Jewish people now this is supposed to be reminder to the nations themselves that are gonna complain when the Jewish people entered into the land and conquered it the nations were very upset and they complained then we actually hear the same complaint at going until this very day least imma tell you Jews you people of Israel are bandits you stole our land now this very question is very puzzling because when you think about it the way of the world is that the strong survive and they fight wars and whoever conquers a land through war certainly almost throughout the entire history I was able to keep that land and as long as they were strong enough to hold on to it it was theirs that is exactly the way that the nations of Kuran got their land in the first place they conquered it in war so now the Jews come their nation of Israel with your sure as their leader and they conquer the land from them so what kind of a complaint do you have so they're not really making a complaint because we beat them in war what they're complaining about is this really ultimately since the land does belong to God and God apportioned the Land of Israel to the Jewish people because we are supposed to be a holy people and Israel is a holy land that means once we came in as the nation of Israel and took over the land it became ours forever didn't just become ours because we overpower them in war but because the land itself was fit spiritually for us and when we possess the land we elevated the land from being mundane to being holy in essence just like we have a hole in the Shama inside so the land also became and together the holiness of the Jewish people in the holdings of the land are one exact fit what this essentially means is that once we took over the land it was unconquered after that even if a nation would come that would be mighty and battle us and repossess the land they would never possess it in essence the way they did before and that is the Tyner that they had they were saying you are like bandits you stole the land from us you took it away from us forever we can't come back when we'll be stronger and repossess it because now God gave it to you intrinsically and eternally and since they understand that so that's what really makes them so upset and that's what really makes them come and complain about it to us so with this we could appreciate and understand why this particular little tiny dot on a map is what people are fighting for for ages and unfortunately we see that we're still fighting for it but if we look deep into the lesson we'll understand our connection to this land and our special merit to possess it comes from the idea of our neshama and our holiness being fit for the land so the best defense that we can have or even the best offense that we can have to possess and control our land the land of our ancestors is to connect with hashem and to connect with our neshama and to live the way that a Shem says to in the torah then the land is fitting for us and then we will certainly deserve it maybe merit to see speedily in our days Hashem mercy where he will decide to give us the land back and rebuild our base the readers have been waiting for for so long [Music] you [Applause]