TAVO

Seeing the Miracles Everyday

The Land of Israel is the home and palace in which the Holy One, blessed be He, dwells. And a home is a place that is renewed at every moment. It does not endure by inertia or by memory, but rather comes into being anew together with the person who himself is renewed each morning. A person changes every day, and life is different each hour, and true love bursts forth from the personality of the present day.

The task now is to repay in kind in the spiritual sense and to add anew each day. And at the threshold of a new year, we must ask how we grow today, and not stop at what we accomplished yesterday or last year.

In the final part of the lesson we will speak of this: that “the Land of Israel” is an inspiration for the proper way of life everywhere, even outside the Land. The demand upon the Jew is to bring the Land of Israel with him, and to create around him an atmosphere of the Land of Israel; to direct his steps in every place in the world as though he were now in Jerusalem.