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0:00 'For man is the tree of the field.' Do you see this tree? - Yes. 'For man is the tree of the field.' Do you see this tree? No matter what it goes through, no matter what. it stays standing. The wind comes, moves it, carries it along, rain falls on it, sun, everything - it can stand. But what happens when they cut it down from the ground, after they come with the axe at the bottom? The tree falls, it is over. The moment we are cut off from the life-force, from the Land of Israel, from the holiness. The Land of Israel is the - And from here - the whole world, everything was created from here.
0:31 Whoever, Heaven forbid - people cut themselves off from the Holy Land, they do not value the holiness of the Land of Israel, they do not value the holiness of Jerusalem, they do not value the holiness of the Torah. The Land of Israel is the completeness of all the Torah and the mitzvos. We need to be strong and connected to the Land of Israel, to the holiness of the Land. The manna that came down for Israel - it was like the holiness of the Land. This is the first Shabbos, when they camped at Alush, and then at once the Holy One, blessed be He, brought down the manna for them. The light that the Holy One, blessed be He, brought down to the Jewish people - this is the eating, the drinking, everything - to bring us to the Land of Israel, so that we could fulfill terumos and maasros here in the Holy Land.
1:02 'Come, receive of the goodness of the Land' - so as to merit here to receive the inheritance, the mitzvos, the holiness, all the mitzvos that depend on the Land of Israel. And everything depends on the eating, on the drinking - this is the secret of the manna that came down for Israel, that sanctified them, as the Chasam Sofer writes in his novellae on Tractate Chullin, that the holiness of the fruits adds in a person the holiness of the Land of Israel, it is found in the fruits and in the vegetables and in everything we eat.
1:28 When we eat the fruits and the vegetables of the Land of Israel, we become even more holy. They have a quality that brings added holiness into a person through our eating the fruits and the vegetables of the Land of Israel.
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