Don't Get Spit Out!!!

the Torah mentions the digestive system of the land of Israel that if the Jews don't behave themselves they get spit out of land and that's kind of a strange thing you know other countries in the world don't necessarily spit out their people but Israel does meaning it either digests you and integrates you or it spits you out and obviously the goal is that we would be digested and it makes me think a little bit about what we go through in the land of Israel and how much of our um very shaky grasp on the land and and even in the eyes of the Gentiles of how much they feel we deserve it versus the the other people who dwell in the in in this country that how much of that has to do with the fact that that we're not really being integrated inside the land because so many people in the land of Israel are ignoring the laws of the Torah but again you know there's a bigger picture and we don't have to get into like what exactly is happening historically that we are in a position where so many people are not keeping the Torah now the this digestive system of the land of Israel of whether it digests us or spits us out is an an amazing thing because we have the spies who came to the land of Israel and when the spies came into the land one of the reports they gave coming back to the to Moses in the desert was that it's in Eros um which means a land that devours its inhabitants it's the way art scroll says it devours the inhabitants but but it's not actually the words it just says it's a land that eats its inhabitants and reinman of rev actually um says that that this isn't a bad thing but it's actually a good thing well it could be a good thing and what is that is that the land with its digestive system either digest you and you become now assimilated into the land of Israel in other words assimilated into the amuna that Israel is all about and assimilated into the kadua and the Holiness of Israel either that happens or God forbid then you get spit out so you'll notice that and I've noticed over the years that people who visit Israel many of them get like Israel gets a taste of them it's you know it's like licking their toes you know they're they're they're they're somehow while they're in Israel they just keep getting more and more uh digested you know so now that it's like digested their feet now it's digesting their legs and they're slowly getting digested and what I've seen over the years is that someone will leave Israel meaning they'll finish their trip they fly back to America they're never the same again they suddenly like their Hometown no longer feels like it's home and they love their families they love you know their local you know favorite spots but it doesn't feel like home anymore like suddenly their own Hometown has become a um it's become a like a like a foreign place and that Israel is home and they never seem to get over it and so I and I'll meet these people sometimes I'll be traveling in the US or wherever I am and and they'll say you know I was you know I met you in Israel whatever and and I've just never been the same ever since and I said yeah that's because Israel digested you you've been digested by Israel and you you do really that is home and it's you know you the only way you'll ever be at peace is in the land of Israel and it really is such such it really is that way meaning even though we're not in a period of time with the temple and we're not in a period of time with with uh you know the the the the Torah being the law of the land even though we're not there yet nevertheless the land has this powerful effect on people now there are three reasons you're allowed to leave Israel and those three barely exist anymore but one of them is to make a living and you can certainly make a living in Israel and the other is to find a wife and you can certainly find a wife or a husband in Israel in fact it's probably a higher chance for most people to find a spouse here and uh meaning a Jewish spouse and the the third is that you're allowed to go out uh for a livelihood and uh oh I'm sorry I mentioned the livelihood my bad um it was oh for Torah study to you know go to be by a teacher of Torah but of course the teachers of Torah the greatest teachers of Torah in the world are in Israel um there's a fourth option though and that fourth option is to Red redeem the uh to redeem someone who is uh who's been captured so a person who's been kidnapped you're allowed to redeem so it's actually brought down that one of the ways that you redeem a person who's kidnapped sorry one of the types of kidnapping isn't the kidnapping of it's not the kidnapping of a um like a normal kidnapping for example what's going on in Gaza right now but the uh but the kidnapp in of someone's someone's mind meaning meaning someone who is who is in a position where the someone's in a position where the environment they're in and their upbringing is is is not a Torah upbringing so that person is um that person's in a situation where they are um you know they're they're they're lost ultimately um because they they have they are not at all aligned with their their deeper purpose as a soul the deeper um overall alignment of the Jewish people's Destiny if they're that's called a kidnapped person so if you have any influence on such a person if you're able to influence them in any way whatsoever so then you've earned your keep for being outside of Israel now sometimes I leave Israel for reasons other than uh Redeeming the kidnapped but I always make sure that I have in mind the kidnapped and when I get there I always will find some a strange Jew and teach them some Torah so that they can so that I can at least you know be outside of Israel now if you leave for those reasons you don't actually leave if you leave for one of the reasons you're allowed to leave you didn't actually leave anyway blessing every body to be digested by the land of Israel fully