4. Where Should We Start Settling the Land?

בוקר טוב, ישר כוח. Good morning everyone. Everyone's hopefully everyone's feeling good. Everyone's going to be feeling even better in a few minutes right now. Even better, you'll see. Actually, to understand today's today's הלכה יומית, לעילוי נשמת, bless you, לעילוי נשמת הרב דרוקמן, you have to sing a ניגון.ופרצת ופרצת ופרצת ופרצת, ימה וקדמה צפונה ונגבה. הוי ופרצת ופרצת ופרצת ופרצת, ימה וקדמה צפונה ונגבה. הוי ופרצת ימה וקדמה, הוי ופרצת צפונה ונגבה. הוי ופרצת ימה וקדמה, הוי ופרצת צפונה ונגבה. אה, איי איי איי, ופרצת ופרצת ופרצת. ימה וקדמה צפונה ונגבה, ימה וקדמה צפונה ונגבה.So when do when do we hear those words? So in the פרשה, it's in ויצא. So when יעקב אבינו has the dream, it's your בר מצוה פרשה. The words are, הארץ אשר אתה שוכב עליה, the land upon which you are you are lying upon, לך אתננה ולזרעך, you and your offspring will be receiving it. ופרצת ימה וקדמה וצפונה ונגבה ונברכו בך כל משפחות האדמה ובזרעך.רב מלמד teaches from here something very interesting and some of the אחרונים discussed this as well, is that when it comes to where do you start with the מצוה of ישוב ארץ ישראל, you have to לפרוץ, you have to start spreading from the heart of where this was said. Where was this said? This was said a few minutes from here. This was said, הארץ אשר אתה שוכב עליה. יעקב אבינו was lying in מקום המקדש. Therefore explains רב מלמד two things, is that we're here to settle the land and especially to מקיים the מצוה of not making it שממה, that it can't be desolate. So anywhere closest to ירושלים where there wasn't any dwelling, doesn't matter for how long it was, he says that's what comes בהדרגה, the closest, meaning places that need to be dwelled with Jewish inhabitants, right, that is the closest to ירושלים, that there is no, there is no ישוב, that's what start, that's how you start. That's the way, that's the direction. ופרצת from there, ימה וקדמה צפונה ונגבה. So we're, you know, we're a little bit דרום from the place where יעקב אבינו had this amazing, amazing moment that still till today plays a role in our life. We are ממש מקיים ל'ופרצת ימה וקדמה צפונה ונגבה'. And even though he says it's true that if you come to ארץ ישראל today, I mean where do, where are places that still need to be מיושבים that are not really, don't have that many יהודים in today, in ארץ ישראל? לא חסר. Unfortunately. And look what, look what happens in places where Jews don't take upon themselves to settle and dwell in the land. Good luck hearing Hebrew in the גליל. You know, good luck hearing driving through the נגב. But then you get into the שאלה of גבולות ארץ ישראל, then it gets a little bit complicated. But but really, there are plenty of places that still need to be settled and dwelled, that's for sure.But we're going to see in a few weeks, probably in two weeks, how the ענין of how we came and conquered ארץ ישראל in the beginning is a little bit different than how it is today. There, the way we conquered ארץ ישראל was בהדרגה, it came through certain areas, through עבר הירדן וכולי, and then יריחו, the עי, גלגל, all these different places. But today, the way we conquer ארץ ישראל physically, right, the way we conquer ארץ ישראל has to be with the with the notion of we're spreading out from the heart of this dream out to everywhere. What a זכות. What a mind-boggling זכות it is that we are we are standing in a place learning the מצוה of ישוב ארץ ישראל in a place that who knows for how many thousands of years there there haven't, there hasn't been any Jewish dwelling. And now we're standing on it, speaking about דוד המלך, speaking about יעקב אבינו, speaking about the מצוה of ישוב ארץ ישראל. These things should do something to us. And בעזרת השם will be doing more and more to us till it's just so contagious that any Jew in the world that that hears about ארץ ישראל, that hears about, hears these words, hears any of our תורה, any of our שמחה in the מצוה of being a יהודי in ארץ ישראל, it's so contagious that he just say I just got to, I just got to be part of this as well. I have no choice. It's מעל הבחירה.Alright, good שבת. Everyone's invited to a learning and and some yummy breakfast as well. Good שבת, everyone.