Questions for today:
How can we constantly rekindle our love for the land of Israel?
What is different in the ability to reenergize between a physical substance, and something living off of spiritual energy?
We mentioned yesterday that if you can feel part of your body, that part of the body is probably weak or sick.
Specifically when the body is humble and we can't feel it, that's when it's most alive and feeling human life which includes inspiration, wisdom, intellect.
The life force of land of Israel is similar to that form of living, therefore, unlike Egypt which has a constant ‘physical’ source of sustenance, which is the Nile, Israel is constantly humbly reliant on rain.
This is why the Torah teaches that G-d's 'eyes' are constantly on the land of Israel. Eyes are synonymous with wisdom. Sages are called the 'eyes' of the population.
Because of this vast difference between inner G-dly life and the substance of the land, there is an entirely different method of life allotment. G-d doesn't just give Israel a little extra energy every year.
Each year G-d takes away all of the G-dly life that goes into it, which allows for a completely new, reinvigorated, G-dly life that was never there before.
Knowing this, our love and our support for the land of Israel should also be renewed and reinvigorated each and every year.
264 44 Tanya Chitas thought for Elul 16 ~ m283 36 Elul 13
Tanya book 4, Essay 14, pt2
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