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Desecration of the Land of Israel
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What does it really mean to desecrate the Land of Israel? Most people think they know what it means to disrespect Israel — but in the writings of Rav Yerucham Levovitz (1874–1936) — the legendary Mashgiach of the Mir Yeshiva in Europe. We catch a glimpse of its true meaning.
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I'll read to you the words of the he
says when he was a child he writes as
invarian page ratio when he's talking
about the idea of Israel and what is
what does it mean to be to make it
profane he says people think it means to
stamp on it to spit on it to treat it
incorrectly no he says when you treat
like America or Europe or another city
another place that's are you
by going ahead and and doing something
bad to it no you drive on chab I drive
during the week I drive on you treat
like during a week you make you
understand
is not to realize ize the beauty of the
land that you were standing in. So not
to preach it to say to say we live in a
country like every other country you're
not going to live here. If you live in a
medel then what makes you deserving to
be here? Why why you you're no better
than anyone else. People are living here
before you. You don't live here. It's a
land. There's also medatame. There's
there's many. If you live in an er of
Israel so this land is Israel. The piece
of ground here is Israel. So what are
you talking about? No matter where we
are. It's always been it's never been
this piece of glo of dirt has been
Israel. It's always been Israel. No
matter if the fact that the Arabs go
ahead and they call it alabesh they call
it the land of the holy. So when we
start calling it ales also so then we'll
deserve to stay here. We'll be able to
stay here and we'll also be successful
to be able to be here. And I end again
with the words of he says when we were
in Europe
Benesh I was 6 years [music] old
a guest would come from Israel
someone was coming to collect the which
was usually meant
and we didn't know who that was. Now
most of us would say here's a dollar
here's $18. There's a check 180. Have a
nice day. What does he say?
Once we knew and he was told that he's
coming from Israel
there's a decor there's someone from he
said everybody would walk and come to
the door his sisters would come his
brothers and this everyone would come to
the door go some there's someone they
would point to him and say
[music]
we looked at him like with like awe in
in absolute in emergence
we would kiss his coats
Like we're kissing something in like a
safety
when we started learning at the age of
five. [music] We had a sear of no
different from what we now think about
and you think of the chariot of where he
is. That's what we pictured in Israel.
That was our that was our dream of
Israel.
Everything that we're doing was really
supposed to be init all the of and 515A
[music]
was on Israel. It was to be in there is
and it's the place of and he says
and look what they're doing. He's in so
much pain [music] about the that they're
doing in this before the when they were
building
it's a it's a special place that we've I
grew up with such a you know such a
yearning such a craving and to see it
happening for us we grew up with it so
it doesn't affect us was pain it was
like needles in the stomach
to make it just like every other land
there's nothing special about it
hurts them so much I feel the pain when
I read inside the words we should also
feel the same