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Mizrachi Inspiration 11 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Mizrahi inspiration. Sheer #11 again.
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  It's important for us to take these abstract concepts, these
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  big ideas, spiritual ideas, complicated ideas, and bring
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  them down into reality. So there was a rabbi, but you're
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  holy Rabbi, Rabbi Mayer Yehil of Ostrovsky.
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  And whenever he would meet someone, he would and people
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  would say, hey Shalom, where do you come from?
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  Where do I come from? He would always say I come from
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  Eretz. You surround, even if you come
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  from a different country, because ultimately a Jew comes
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  from the land of Israel. This might sound like a great
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  little rabbi thing to do or something for a holy person, but
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  if we do feel deeply connected to the land of Israel, if our
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  source, if our story begins there, then it doesn't matter
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  that within our our own particular family journeys it
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  might be Europe, Eastern Europe, Safari world.
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  Ultimately every Jew comes from the land of Israel and our very
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  innermost essence. We belong to the land of Israel.
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  And where do we know this from? Because it's not just a great
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  little quip you know from the Madris Rabbi is already
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  comparing. Contrast the behavior of
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  yourself with the behavior of Masha Rabin.
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  When Yosef was taken down to Egypt, what did he tell the
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  people in prison with him? That I was stolen from the land
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  of Israel, the land of the Hebrews.
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  And when Mosher Abenu ends up in the Midjun and Yitrow's
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  daughters are welcoming him to their family, well, that
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  describing what went on during the day and how he rescued them
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  from the from the bullies who were trying to attack them.
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  They said an Egyptian man saved us.
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  Now Moshe Abeynu hears their words.
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  He hears them calling him an Egyptian.
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  And he kept silent. Whereas yourself was proud to
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  say, no, I'm a Jew. I come from the land of Israel.
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  But hold on a minute. Moshe wasn't Egyptian.
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  His parents lived in Egypt and he was born.
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  He had an Egyptian birth certificate.
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  How could he claim he was from another country when clearly he
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  wasn't? And here is the answer.
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  Through Hashem's promise of the land to Avraham's descendants,
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  we all belong to the Land of Israel.
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  Moshe belongs to the Land of Israel.
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  We belong to the Land of Israel. So where do we come from?
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  We come from the Land of Israel. Simple quote from Rov Cook.
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  Because of our long exile amongst the impurity of the
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  nations of the world, we've become accustomed to think that
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  our life in Gallut, our life outside of Israel, is normal.
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  And we forget that Eretz Israel is our natural, healthy,
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  divinely intended place. And when the great book of the
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  Kuzuri, the great philosophy book of the Halevi writes
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  something very, very powerful, the Halevi is telling the king
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  in the story how important the land of Israel is.
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  And he said, well hold on a minute, you're living in Spain,
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  you don't live that, you don't live in the land that you are
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  praising. So here's a beautiful quote.
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  The Rabbi confessors, You have uncovered my great disgrace, O
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  King of the Kuzars. It is this sin which prevented
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  the divine promise from being fulfilled in the time of the
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  Second Temple. The divine Providence was ready
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  to restore everything as it had been at the first in the first
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  Temple. If all of them had answered the
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  call and returned to the land of Israel, rather than staying in
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  Babylon, but only a small portion respond to about the
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  majority. And some great Jews amongst them
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  remained in Babylon, preferring exile and slavery under the
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  nations of the world, rather than giving up their houses to
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  return to the land. If we had been willing to
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  approach the God of our fathers with a pure heart, he would have
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  granted us the same salvation which he granted to our
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  forefathers in Egypt. Now since this isn't so, our
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  prayers to worship at his holy mountain, worship of Mount Zion
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  and other prayers like these are like the speech of the parrot
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  and the chattering of the Starling.
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  We say these words and others without true belief.
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  To what extent do we fight, feel ourselves part of this same
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  disgrace that Robbie heard the Halevi in the Khuzari speaks
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  about. We might pray for the return to
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  Israel, but do we really want to go?
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  My friends have a very lovely day.