Why Is the Entire World Obsessed With Israel? Rabbi Mordechai Becher & Rabbi Sokol

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] Rabbi Becker, welcome to the program. Thank you for joining us. If you open Tanakh, it's impossible to ignore that Erit Israel, this land is God's signature issue. And for the history of the Jewish people, we've been in exile, not by choice until today. So why is it that Judaism needs to have a land? And furthermore, why does Messiah have to come to this land? So maybe if you could expand on those two questions. Thank you. Okay, these are very broad but also very fundamental questions. What's the role of uh the land of Israel in Torah, in Judaism, in our lives? Um what's so to speak Hashem's idea, plan, desire for the land of Israel? These are important questions and you are correct. Um it's very hard to uh no, not very hard. It's impossible to go through Tanakh, the Torah, prophet's writings, and avoid Israel. It's not it's not possible. Um, Hashem's first words to Abraham was to go to Israel. Um the uh first recorded uh I mean the first uh the the greatest test that Abraham had was to offer his son Yitskak as an offering on Hara Maria land of Israel the site of the future Bamikdash future temples. Uh we know that um that that the Yitsak never left the land of Israel because he was called an olatim, a pure offering. His sanctity did not allow for him to leave the land of Israel. Um and it was with great

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1. 0:01[music] Rabbi Becker, welcome to the program. Thank you for joining us. If you open Tanakh,…
2. 2:46Israel, our settlement of the land of Israel, conquest, exile, return, exile and so on and…
3. 5:50out of Israel, we're a nation in a coma. You check our pulse, it's 270. That's…
4. 9:02servant of God. He says, "So if all the Jews were just one type, that wouldn't…
5. 12:18of space, all of the worlds and he surrounds all the worlds. If so, what do…
6. 15:28the time. will just burn up. You need places, you need times, you need moments of…
7. 18:07corner. Australia doesn't exist on these maps, etc. But but the those are not completely inaccurate.…
8. 21:19and uh you know uh again Rabbi Alvi points out that he says uh people can…
9. 24:31means to an end. They're the means the end goal is to have a relationship with…
10. 27:47many people I don't know who's watching this but um we can be involved invest in…

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