Rav Yitzchak Breitowitz: The Importance of Living in The Land of Israel

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

[music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [singing] >> Good morning everybody. Hope I hope you're well. Thank you for coming. you're well. Thank you for coming. Uh as always our sheer is dedicated for the praying for the protection of Am Yisrael, the lasting unity of the people of Israel, which will lead to victory. As Rashi says for all of those whose health has been affected by terror, a refuah shleimah for Leah Shoshana bas Yisrael Sura, and Harav Dov ben Shoshana, a besoch shaar cholei Yisrael, and aliyas neshama in memory of Irving Kaplan, Yitzchak ben Shimshon Meir Halevi, whose yahrtzeit is this Shabbos, Halevi, whose yahrtzeit is this Shabbos, the 21st of Sivan, uh dedicated by Barbara and David Kaplan. Uh thank you very much and may the divrei Torah be al iluy l'iluy nishmata. Um nishmata [snorts] rather, yeah. Uh Again, uh because of the dichotomy in the two parshiyos in chutz la'aretz, it's Beha'alotcha and in Eretz Yisrael it's Shelach, so I may try to give you two thoughts on each, but I'll start with Shelach because I will give priority to the because I will give priority to the parsha of Eretz Yisrael, especially in the parsha which is about the priority of Eretz Yisrael. There's a special a reason here. You know, I heard recently a friend of mine, uh maybe you know him, Michael has this podcast about homecoming to Israel, very very fervent, enthusiastic lover of Eretz Yisrael, uh kind of tough, he doesn't give any excuses for his lawyers at all. Uh, and uh he says that all the American rabbis, when it comes to Parshas Shlach,

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1. 0:02[music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [singing] >> Good morning everybody. Hope I hope you're well.…
2. 5:07start telling you this is the way it is, but perhaps Hakadosh Baruchu is showing us,…
3. 12:22suggests a compromise position between Rashi and Ramban. And that is, if a person is on…
4. 17:56Cuz Yeah is Yud Hey, Kah Yoshia'cha. May Hashem save you from the evil counsel of…
5. 23:32concealment of the divine. You're not going to get the manna. You're going to have to…
6. 29:13challenges. Who more than Yehoshua would feel that insecurity? Talk about filling big shoes. Yehoshua had…
7. 34:53Recognize that sanctifying the material, sanctifying the gashmius, is ultimately the very purpose of the Torah.…
8. 40:29Torah is somehow alluding to that, although I'm not sure uh what the context would be.…
9. 46:08confront that material. Now, in many, many ways, the sin of the Meraglim we often describe…
10. 51:42is a special zechus. And not everybody will have that zechus. But Eretz Yisrael doesn't want…

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