Niagara Falls & Grand Canyon In Israel - R. Aharon Pessin - TorahAnytime.com

Niagara Falls, who was there? Show of hands. Who thinks it's beautiful? Why isn't there a Niagara Falls in Eretz Yisrael? Mount Everest. You'll say Hermon. What's the size of the Hermon? A compared to Mount Everest. Why don't we have Everest mountains here? Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon. And don't tell me Ramon Crater, it's uh quite different. Why? A shaila Marana Rabbeinu Chaim Kanievsky, zt"l, was asked. And he said, "What do you mean? Sochum daf ches?" Sochum daf ches speaks about Niagara Falls? No. The Gemara says over there, "Why aren't they peiros gan osar in Yerushalayim?" In Beit She'an, Beit She'an is up north, there amazing used to be amazing amazing fruits. Juicy, gigantic. So, the Gemara asks, "Why isn't there these beautiful fruits in Yerushalayim?" And the Gemara says, "Because three times a year you have to go to Yerushalayim." So, what would happen if you would have those fruits in Yerushalayim? You wouldn't come because you want to come visit a Kodesh Boruchu in his palace. AH, BORUCH HASHEM, YOM TOV IS COMING, I'M GOING to get those fruits. I'm looking forward to it. Three times a year you get you come to Yerushalayim to see the fruits. I'm not coming for fruits. I want TO COME TO SHAMAYIM. Says Rabbeinu Kanievsky, the same idea. If you had the Niagara Falls here, the Grand Canyon, anything else, who wouldn't come here? A tourist place would be popular. People would bring nice would build nice motels and inns and hotels and all kinds of things near the Niagara Falls and get up in the morning and look at the Niagara. I want you to get up in the morning and look and say, "This is a Kodesh Boruchu's palace. This is a Kodesh Boruchu's home and he invited me to live there." I, but why isn't there a Because it increases your reward. If you come for an ulterior motive, your reward is diminished. It's all the second for the time being. We don't have this here. Enjoy what we do have and it is a beautiful and most beautiful land, but specific things are not here because if they would be here, you would come for them and you wouldn't come for the right sake, for the right cause, for the cause of the mitzvah Yishuv Eretz Yisrael and for that you get eternal reward.