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We read in the Parasha: "And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had parted from him, 'Raise your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward . Raise your eyes and look.'""For all the land that you see, I will give it to you and to your offspring." You are now seeing with this vision, the vision of Abraham our forefather. A cycle. And then it is written: "And I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth , so that if one could count." Life also takes hold: "Arise, walk about the land through its length and its breadth , for I will give it to you." So we are already moving from seeing to... >> The world of action. On this, there is a very, very precious Kli Yakar, truly precious. And this is what he says: " Arise, walk about the land, its length and its breadth." He sees that initially, the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Abraham: "Raise your eyes and look from the place where you are standing, northward and southward and eastward and westward, for all that you see, I will give to your offspring." Meaning that vision is one thing; through it, Abraham connects to the place by seeing; and afterwards, He returned to this and said: "Arise, walk about the land, its length and its breadth, for I will give it to you." Meaning that one needs to perform an actual acquisition, like the acquisition of the Egyptians. What needs to be done? An act of acquisition . Vision alone is not enough here; it is not enough just to see. And furthermore, because at first...He said "to your offspring forever," and afterwards He said "for I will give it to you," and did not mention "your offspring" or "forever," and also, in the beginning, He said "Raise your eyes ," which is a request, and then he says "Arise, walk about the land." He did not mention the language. Yes. Specifically when He speaks to him, " Raise your eyes," does he see anything? Does He ask him? And when He says to him, "Arise, walk about the land," no. He asks, He says. And with Moses our teacher, upon him be peace, the system changes, as it says "Ascend and see the land," implying that He used the language of "ascend" for the actual crossing, which is an example of "arise and walk about the land." But for the vision, He did not mention it, because He did not say "Ascend and see." And furthermore, what is it that He said here: "Look from the place where you are standing"? Yes, yes. >> He saw from the place where he was standing, north and south and so on, and you would expect him to see from the place where he is standing; look from a better place, He asked him there . Well, those are all the questions that should arise for us when we read the verses and listen deeply, deeply to what we hear here. And what seems closest to me to say about all this is that the Holy One, blessed be He, gives the land to Abraham to acquire two types of benefit. One is spiritual, acquired through vision alone, and one is physical, which is acquired through ...what is needed there. Meaning, through an act of acquisition. So basically, Abraham our forefather is receiving two things here. One, he receives through vision; until you see the place, you are receiving or performing some specific action here. And one is physical. So he says: The vision is the spiritual matter, and " Arise, walk about" is the physical action. What is the spiritual action? Pay attention, my teachers and masters: The spiritual part is that the place of the Temple below is aligned with the Temple above, and there, the name of the Almighty is established, and there is the dwelling of His power, blessed be He. And whoever looks upon that holy place is immediately clothed in a spirit of purity and holiness, and their eyes shall behold the Supreme King in His beauty, blessed be He. Wow! And it is a unique creation for a person to attain that perfection in the place that Abraham called "Adonai Yireh ." This is the vision that we will see later in the Binding of Isaac, that it is a place whose essence is vision and closeness. "Yireh"—yes, there is " yireh" with a chirik (i) and "yireh" with a tzeireh (e)—we have both " seeing" and "fear/awe" as a path. For just as he came to see, so he came to be shown. For immediately upon his arrival there, pay attention my teachers and masters, for immediately upon his arrival there, just as the Shechinah sees him, so he sees the face of the Shechinah; he is immediately influenced, empowered, and cleaves to the radiance of His Shechinah, blessed be He, from the World to Come. Immediately upon his arrival there, why ? Because the Holy One, blessed be He, in this place sees you; Hashem sees you . When you enter Mount Moriah, Hashem sees you. And the vision of the Holy One, blessed be He, is not, Heaven forbid, a mere casual look; it is a vision that exerts holiness upon you, an action that the Shechinah performs upon you. And therefore, immediately upon arriving there, just as the Shechinah sees him, so he sees the face of the Shechinah and is immediately influenced, empowered, and cleaves to the radiance of His Shechinah, blessed be He, from the World to Come, for even there the righteous sit, enjoying the radiance of His Shechinah, blessed be He, praised be His name. And not in every place on earth does a person merit this perfection, but only in the place called "Adonai Yireh," which is Mount Moriah, Beit El—Wonders of wonders! For above it is written, "to the place of the altar in Beit El," and below it refers to...the Temple, connecting it to Beit El. And the commentators explain there: at that time, the two places were joined, the place of the Temple and Beit El becoming one place. Therefore it is said here to Abraham: "Lift up your eyes," point from the place where you are, point with your finger, for this spiritual perfection attained by a unique creation is only attained from the place where he stands, and that is Beit El—which is the literal meaning of the verses: "And go up...from across Beit El," etc. This is what it meant: " To the place that I will show you," for I am showing you there, for this reason , the King in His beauty. Now pay attention, it says: "And this spiritual benefit will never be removed from his seed forever." This benefit, for whoever comes there, whoever comes to Mount Moriah and the Holy One, blessed be He, sees him and he sees the face of the Shechinah, this spiritual benefit shall never be removed from his seed forever. For even at a time when the Temple below is not standing, nevertheless, the Temple above, which corresponds to it, is eternal and never removed, and at all times, abundance descends from it upon the holy seed of Abraham. And for this reason, the perfect ones and many others have yearned in their souls to stand in that holy place, for "Your servants take pleasure in its stones and favor its dust." The Kli Yakar says: The reason the Jews, even in times of destruction, strive to ascend to the Temple Mount, to come to the place of the Shechinah, is because even though the House is destroyed, the supreme spiritual Temple above still dwells here. For just as our father Abraham arrived here while the Temple was in ruins, and at that time the Holy One, blessed be He, said "On the mountain of the Lord it shall be seen," so too does Abraham say that from this place, the Holy One sees us and we see Him. So may it be His will that He awakens the hearts of the people of Israel to come to this holy place in holiness and purity, and may we merit to feel the immense spiritual abundance. >> Amen, and may the Holy One, blessed be He, bestow upon all who come to this holy place His influence, and may His presence dwell among us truly, and may this be His will, and let us say amen.