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One of the sacred values ​​of the Jewish people throughout the generations was love for the Land of Israel. Even when one does not fulfill the mitzvah of settling the Land of Israel in practice, there is at least a mitzvah to love, and even more so when one fulfills the actual commandment. Our right to be redeemed depends on the fulfillment of this mitzvah, which is a correction to the sin of the spies, which says "Weimasu in Eretz Hemdah."

Love of the land
One of the sacred values ​​of the Jewish people throughout the generations was love for the Land of Israel. Righteous Jews were deeply attached to our Holy Land, and were always eager to wake up and settle in the Land of Israel.

In 1840, love and great longing for the Land of Israel began to arise, a love that never existed in the world: love encompassed the entire nation, born in different countries and of different status, who were observant of Torah and mitzvot, and those who were not large and small alike, Avnia and Ofra, with real devotion.

The point of the Land of Israel was always burning in their hearts, and they did not give rest to their feet and blood to their souls in their countries of residence. They established the text "to Zion, not to man, and to Israel without ashkkot" in its full meaning.

This love did not remain in the heart, but also in all actions were thrilled by the desire to work for the building of the land to destroy the people and the land: the work of the land and applause. Some of them stand on the ground plowing and sowing and sowing sweat in the deserts and helping others to put farmers on the ground and promote the work of the land in Israel.

And some devote all their energy and language to their studies in order to make people believe in the idea of ​​settling the land, and there are those who study the Land of Israel to write the land of their beloved in the handwriting of measurements to mark its borders.

And there are ten with the volunteers who devote much of their heart to planning plans to settle on the Holy Land. From this love of the Land of Israel, as butterflies to the fire, these loving and enthusiastic Jews flew from all corners of the Diaspora to Zion, and their homes were returned to their chimneys.

The Sages of Israel saw in this great love, the answer promised by the Torah (Deuteronomy 30) that Israel would do at the end of their exile and be redeemed immediately.

Sources in the Bible
In the Book of Psalms [2] it is said, "For your slaves wanted her stones and her ashes." From this verse, the author of the Sefer ha-Haredim learned that "every man of Israel must like the Land of Israel and come to it from the ends of the land with great desire as a son to his mother's bosom" [3].

In the Torah we found a very great punishment in the sin of the spies for slander of the Land of Israel. In the book of Be'er Miriam he wrote: "From here we learned that we have a great commandment to love the Land of Israel, so that we do not want to see it as a bad thing" [4].

The Torah praises and the like in the eyes of the people of Israel to the Land of Israel, as it is written: "For the Lord your God Mbiac unto the land of favor land Nhli Mim Aint and Thmt Itzaim Bbkah and Bhr: land Hth and Sarh and Gfn and Tanh and Rmon land Zit oil and Dbs: land which had not Bmscnt Tacl Bh bread not Thsr Cl Bh land Asr Abnih Brzl and Mhrrih Thtzb Nhst: and eat it in and Sbat and Brct At the Lord your God on the earth Htbh Asr Ntn Lc "(Deuteronomy, Chapter VIII). The simple meaning of the verses is that the Torah educates Israel to love the Land of Israel and thus to thank God for it.

Defining the Mitzvah
The love of the Land of Israel is a special place, it is a commandment in itself. Even when one does not fulfill the mitzva of actually settling the land, there is at least a mitzva to love, and even more so when one actually fulfills the mitzva [6].

The love of the Land of Israel is a branch of the commandment of the love of God [7], for the one who loves God loves the inheritance of the Lord to the house of God.

The essence of love
"The love of the land is not a love of the homeland when the Frenchman loves his country of birth and will honor the capital of his country, Paris, because it is a national feeling. The love of the land is a branch of the commandment of God's love, for the one who loves God loves his home and the home of God, And the land of Israel is the place where the Lord chose His dwelling as it is written: "In the city of Zion, I will dwell with him." [10]

Redemption depends on love
In the Book of Psalms (chapter 126, verse 24) it is explained that the root of the sin of the spies was that they were fed up with the land, "and they were fed up with the land of Hamada, but they did not believe it in their word." He wrote about this in the Book of the Charedim: "Redemption will come in repairing the sin, that will love the land, as it is written [11]. To Zion, until its sons will utterly destroy it with pleasure and desire. "[12]

This was also the case when the love of Zion and the people of Israel rose with devotion to the Land of Israel in the previous century.

Laws and customs
Maimonides wrote in Hilkhot Melakhim: "The great sages of the Sages were in control of the areas of the Land of Israel, and kissed their stones and rolled in Ofra, and he also said that your servants wanted their stones and their land to be comforted." [14]

We must correct the sin of the spies and speak the praise of the land, and thank God for the good gift he gave to our forefathers and to us. Especially in our generation, where millions of Jews were privileged to immigrate to Israel, to establish families there, and to settle them, which many generations of saints and saints have not received before. Therefore, it is our duty to pay homage to the Land of Israel, to love its landscapes, to decorate its trees and flowers, to clean it of waste, to repair its ways, to build comfortable and comfortable houses, and to always repeat the words of Joshua and a dog against all those who stood up and say, "The country is very good. "[15].

A visit to the Land of Israel
It is a mitzvah for non-Jews to come to visit the Land of Israel, even though many believe that this does not include the commandment to settle the land. Nevertheless, there is a mitzvah to love the land, like any lover who comes to visit his friend.

The Sages said: "He gives a soul to the people and the spirit of those who walk in it." The entire process is four cubits in the Land of Israel - it is certain that he is a son of the World to Come. [17]

In addition, seeing the land is also a commandment, and Scripture is full of the text [18]: "I will go up and see the land that is good on this side of the Jordan, this good mountain and its son