One of the questions that haunt our Sages on the tragic episode of the scouts to whom is dedicated a good part of our Torah, is how it is that almost the entire leadership of Israel (with marginal although exceptions Jeoshua prestigious and Calev) falls so low, giving up Erez Israel. An interesting analysis provides the Rav Mordechai Elon shlita Derashe in his last year of the Parashot Bealotechà Shelach and Lech. Rav Elon's thesis, based on an extraordinary commentary Kli Yakar is based on the contrast between Mount Sinai and Mount Moriah, Jerusalem. The basic error, of all people, beginning with his leadership is to fall in love with Sinai. In failing to understand that the incredible atmosphere Sinai is required to receive the Torah but not what D. plans for Israel. While not going into the details of this perspective, remember two points: Moses opens the book of Deuteronomy and its admonitions with a clear warning of D. Israel, " enough for you to reside in this mountain, turn around and go away to the Mount dell'Emoreo "on which Rashi says it should be understood in its literal sense. Secondly, an instant after the promulgation of the Torah, the Sinai, which was banned as the area's most sacred shrine, becomes a mountain like all the others. The only place where the sacred is linked with matter and is precisely Jerushalaim Erez Israel. Behind the refusal to Erez Israel then there is a substantial rejection of the divine precept to unite spirit and matter in observance of the Torah and who has never mizvot philosophical speculation as finding the right behavior. Giving up the princes of Israel, Erez Israel are rejecting the idea of \u200b\u200ba nation where everything is Torah: from politics to health through markets and street paving. The Principles would like a spiritual existence "suspended" in the desert where we can take care of the Torah without having to look after the problems of everyday life. There is in this a good deal of concern about the social role that is very prestigious to date but whose future is unclear. Let me try to explain the view of Rav Elon according to another perspective: the food. In the desert, and not until the time when you cross the Jordan, Israel eats manna. The Sages also tell us that the Torah was not given other than to the eating of manna. The Holy One, blessed be He who has decided to break away from the bread of the poor, Lechem oni, which has characterized our stay in Egypt would need the bread from heaven. That those who had been accustomed to receiving a piece of unleavened bread dall'aguzzino Egyptian learned to look up and receive the bread along with the Torah directly from D. [ and maybe this is the real complaint of people who are still locked in the servant's head and nostalgia for what he received for free - from Rashi mizvot second - from the master, without any liability ]. The windfall raises us, heals us, but like any good medicine, it must not be abused. God has in mind for us another: the bread from the earth. In the Treaty of Shekalim is written that the discriminant which makes Erez Israel, holy land than the other is that from Erez Israel, Erez Israel and only you can submit tenders starchy Omer, Shavuot, and the two loaves of the firstfruits. The bread of the land, the land par excellence is the only means which can offer the menachot on the feast of the giving of the Torah, whose date is established as a known anchoring the Omer offering, that of the two loaves, and after which you can offer the first fruits. Why does the Torah makes no sense without all the bread of Erez Israel. The contrast between the vision of Erez Israel and the Sinai becomes then the contrast between the bread from the earth and the sky. Between the manna and Terumo. It seems to me remarkable that we never had any precept of eating manna, where we, even today, the commandment to take tithes from the terumot and product of Erez Israel. The controversy there and apparently there has always been among the "Zionists", and Jeoshua Calev and aficionados of the 'Holy Mount Sinai Community', as it is called Rav Elon does not concern the goodness of Erez Israel never Giacchè Quesi last admit, "it oozes milk and honey, and these are the fruits . The question is rather whether it is, to put it in modern terms, a sustainable choice. If we can remain, not least from the standpoint of economic and material on this earth. The arguments are different: ranging from those who say that Israel's economy and the resultant standard of living is not sustainable (as if someone had ever asked for the complaint to decide whether to tax or not we are required to implement a mizvà Torah) who says that Torah is the system not be sustainable in-country, how many Masters, and Masters that I admire, I've heard that you should not mix politics with the Torah! These theories have always been the pivot of the philosophy of those who, under the best intentions, has the whole of the desert and is not willing to give up their dose of manna which is not achieved even a mizvà for a while 'bread of Erez Israel from which to raise the challah and unite the whole world with his Creator. Our Torah portion, which is no coincidence that teaches us the rules for their challah, gives us a clear vision of these two philosophies. The ten principles say: "It 'a land that eats its inhabitants " Jeosua Calev and say, " not fear the people of the earth, for it is our bread . I once heard from Rabbi Mordechai Elon, the only real Beracha which is said to reside in Erez Israel is Bircat Hamazon in which we bless God for the land and food [ that no case is the part of the blessing that has held Jeoshua ]. This key should also be read to say the strange blessing that we recite before eating bread, which as you know, this is what compels us to bless the bircat hamazon. Usually the food blessings for a close with "... Creator of the fruit of the earth, tree, vine " or more generally " that everything was with his word." Only the bread becomes the formula " that brings out the bread from the Earth . This formula, in addition to being objectively not properly descriptive of reality as the other forces us to reflect on the relationship that exists between the bread and the Earth. By eating the bread we bless the One who brings out the bread from the land of Israel, which keeps us in spite of the laws of economics and history and that has given us a role in the world which is to create our company according to Sue rules in the land of Israel. In preparing the people to cross the Jordan, Jeoshua invite the people to make provisions. It's not clear which feature should do. Until you pass the Jordan have manna, go eat since the product of Erez Israel!? Our sages teach us that Jeoshua it that the people charged with a particular provision: memories. Memories of a unique era, a lifestyle, a diet that is disappearing to be replaced by the bread of the earth, and Terumo. Jeoshua knows what mistakes the love for the manna and the study of Torah can only lead, as the Mishnah in Avot tells us: " as each is accompanied by the Torah that do not work, eventually vanishes and leads to sin . Jeoshua want the people rationalize its relationship with the windfall, just so he can get in Erez Israel and make Passover eating wheat Erez Israel. It seems to me that the time has come that we start to rationalize the relationship with our manna, the holy community of the Diaspora. Too often we transform the jealous clinging to our traditions and sacred community in a totem that separates us from the rest of the community of Israel and especially from the Land of Israel. We love our community and we forget to Erez Israel. So I would like to conclude by saying that it is precisely those who have a genuine attachment to their traditions of those who appreciate other holy community of Israel and above all know that the unity of Israel, despite the differences, it is the foundation upon which everything else rests. I would point out then that is from my teacher Rav Chajm shlita Della Rocca, that the ancient traditions of Rome is the guardian, I learned the lesson that gives us our father Jacov: which is better sleep on the ground with a stone pillow in Erez Israel, which in the comfort of the diaspora to Charan. That stone which is the union of the twelve tribes of Israel on what will be rebuilt soon in our days and the Sanctuary of the D. Living. Shabbat Shalom, Jonathan Pacifici
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