Shelach: "Sacred Soil" - The Contemporary Ramifications of Kedushas Eretz Yisrael

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uh would like to share with you this morning for the occasion of parl we are we know the moragum come to and said it's a very good land and we know and seem to have had a great urida coming into Israel which is a phenomenon that we encounter really throughout history where for many people they go into Israel and they have a great aliyah and a great elevation and uh they grow in Tory and sometimes it could happen somebody goes to Israel and it seems that it has the opposite effect so we'll try to explain a little bit this phenomenon and to get an understanding about the unique kaduca of Israel perhaps we could put it into contemporary terms We know there's this little strip of land on the border of Art Israel that has seemed to be a thorn in the side of Kali Israel throughout history known as Gaza and uh going back from the beginning of time to Abrau tokenu whether it's in in this century it's a piece of land that's always moving back and forth back and forth we conquer it we make it beautiful we build yeshivas there we make greeneries there then we disengage from the land so how do we understand this uh the quality uh on a spiritual level of this area of land that we know as Gaza. So I want to uh begin by asking a number of questions on different areas of Israel and then presenting tremendous that's found in many. Let's begin with the uh Friday night of Shabas we say [clears throat] in Friday night which we say all the time. We talk about Friday night. We're not in we're in flatbush. We still say we don't say any other night of the week. So why mention it after le shabas? Is beautiful. But what's the connection

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1. 0:33uh would like to share with you this morning for the occasion of parl we are…
2. 4:52one listed first is the greatest. So one would expect otherwise you look in number five…
3. 9:46conquers again the city of go and then so is Yehuda says Don't don't confuse this…
4. 14:39understands that what The Rashbam wanted Rashi to write was to write a parish on Kish…
5. 18:59it's not like the by the way is Gaza part of Israel the Rambnam seems to…
6. 23:54lucked out. Who knows who could have conquered the city? His brother conquered the city. That's…
7. 28:46there is place there is time and there is person there's a realm of place there's…
8. 32:57He's going all over the place in Israel. He finally makes one stop and this stop.…
9. 38:08sudden being called a mel because in that's the city of comes to what do the…
10. 43:04in Bhud and even the umam when they want to mimic their messiah they have to…

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