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Mizrachi Inspiration 10 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Mizrahi Inspiration. Sheer #10.
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  What damage happened to the Jewish people?
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  Not physical damage, but emotional, spiritual, connected
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  to the Jewish people. Type damage happened over the
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  2000 years of exile. When you see in exile, our
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  identity shifted away from a national character.
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  We didn't speak of ourselves as a nation because it didn't mean
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  anything. It was a concept that had no had
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  no basis in the reality forming it.
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  Therefore what did it do? It created a Judaism which
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  focused on the individual and not on the cloud, not on the
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  community. To Jews in Galotin Exile, the
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  land of Israel was close to their hearts, but it was a
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  faraway dream. Our homeland, Yes, Kadash, yes.
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  A place to perform even more mid spot, yes.
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  But a land vital to Judaism, To Torah?
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  Well no, because the Judaism that was experienced for so many
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  years was individual. Was each person's individual
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  accounting with God? Each person's world to come?
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  Olam haba, each person's private spirituality.
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  A thinking evolved that we could be God fearing Jews just as well
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  in Berlin or New York? London.
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  It doesn't work. It's just that that that that
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  concept is just not true. We cannot be the best possible
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  Jews living outside of the land of Israel.
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  It just doesn't work. Erit's Israel is not something
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  external to us. It's spiritual.
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  It's spiritually and physically a part of us, integral to our
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  souls. An individual can wander about
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  from place to place without a permanent home.
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  But a nation, to be a nation, requires a land which is part of
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  the miracle of 1948, that the nation resurrected itself.
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  The vision in the prophets of in Haskell, in his equals, dry
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  bones coming back to life, becoming bodies again.
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  That miracle, that that prophecy that would have sounded so
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  utterly farfetched and ridiculous came about The land
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  of Israel is the land of Klausral, the community of
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  Israel, the nation of Israel. We have to stop thinking of Tara
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  in very limited ways. Tara is a national constitution
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  embodied in a divinely chosen community and fulfilled in a
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  land chosen by God, A divine community with a real
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  government, a real army, a real economy and everything else of a
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  real down to earth normal national life.
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  It's that sense of bringing the religion down to the very small
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  details of regular life. We have to stop thinking of
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  religion to something you experience when you want
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  something different. To bring Tori into every aspect
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  of life. There are two important pursuk
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  him that people should know, just know in terms of our our
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  identity. The 1st is from the Prophet
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  Isaiah, Yeshiah Chapter 43 Prospect 21.
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  This nation I have formed for myself says Hashem and the 2nd
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  possack from the book of Davarim chapter 28 Possack 10.
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  And all the people of the earth shall see that you are called by
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  the name of the Lord. We are a nation created by
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  Hashem to proclaim his name in the world.
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  And just as all other nations belong to a particular land,
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  Hashem's nation belongs to a particular land.
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  Now the word in Hebrew for chooses Bachhar.
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  Listen to these three persukim. We know we say I share bachhar
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  banu miko Harman. Hashem chose us.
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  There's another password that says Ki bachhar hashem Betsy on
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  Hashem chose Zion Ki Yaakkov Bachhar law ya.
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  The Lord has chosen Yaakov. I mean the Jewish people for
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  himself for his possession. The divinely chose the nature of
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  our nation, of our land, is integral to understanding who we
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  are as the Jewish people. Mull over those thoughts.
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  Have a great day.