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ENGLAND ISRAELI DISTRIBUTOR AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR Necbemia Rostnb&rg Gold's Book & Gift Co. Kiryat Telshe Stone, 108A 36 William Street O.N. Harei Yehuda, ISRAEL Balaclava 3183, Vic., AUSTRALIA THE JEWISH OBSERVER does not assume responsibility for the Kashrus As we go to press, we record with sorrow the petira of any product, publication, or service (passing) of the Klausenberger Rebbe, Rabbi Yekusiel advertised in its pages Yehuda Halberstam, n:n::i?p'i::ii:n. © Copyright 1994 A biographical appreciation of the Rebbe is planned for a future issue. JUNE 1994 VOLUME XXVll I NO. 5 n··::i~ln I. ENGAGING THE DIVINE SPARK said: "That the Divine Spark is found Eretz Yisroel. Moreover, the Taros are with His People has already been ex­ dependent on that Land. It is not pos­ plained to me. But what is unique sible for this special, unique people to n his classic Sefer, HaKuzari 0 about His Land?" respond to the Divine without regard for (Ma amar 2,8), Rabbi Yehuda The Chaver then said, "You are the factor of place. This place-the best I Halevi has the Chaver, a man surely aware that each land produces vineyard land-will grow nothing with­ distinguished in the wisdom of the specific types of vegetation and sup­ out tending. And ifyou are going to tend Jews, say: ports different types of animal life. So the vines of Am Yisroel elsewhere, it is "The Nitzutz Ohr Eloki-the spark too do different locales foster different impossible for them to grow." of that Divine Light (of which he had national, cultural, and social charac­ been speaking earlier}-creates in Am teristics amongst its populace. Each hese are astounding words. Yisroel a predisposition to nevu'a­ produces a different kind of human Does Torah not flourish else­ prophecy. That spark of the Divine being. Should it be so difficult for you where in the world? Isn't it a Light is effective in elevating His to understand that if Hakadosh T given that "Ever since the destruction people, in His Land." Baruch Hu chose this land for this Earlier, the Chaver had explained people, that it has a segula meyu­ of the Beis Hamikdash, G-d has no that "His people"-Knesses Yisroel­ chedes for the Am Segula-that it place in His world other than the four are the heart, the treasure and the end harbors special treasures for His cubits of halachd' (Berachos 7b), re­ purpose of all existence, and that Treasured Nation?" gardless of geographic location? Nitzutz Ohr Eloki affects His People in To this the Melech Ha.Kuzrim re­ What. then, did Rabbi Yehuda sponded, "I haven't heard that the in­ His Land in a singular manner. True, Halevi have in mind? As Rav Saadya all the other lands are also full of habitants of Eretz Yisroel are better Hashem's Glory, but the spirituality people necessarily than people who Gaon said, "Israel is a nation only of Eretz Yisroel is still unique. live elsewhere." through its Taros, .. and this includes Hakadosh Baruch Hu did not entrust The Chaver replied, "Even the best Torah Shel Ba'al Peh, which was this Land to any intermediaries-not of vineyards requires tending. The Jew­ transmitted through all the millennia to any kesuyim, any veils, any ish people, in effect. are the heart of the of our existence. How could the Torah world. And this land, Eretz Yisroel. is malochim, any Sar or Sarim. All the and the Am haTorah flourish in set­ other lands, in that sense uniquely reserved forthem, providing a (kivayachal), cannot be described as special support system for them. Just tings removed from Eretz Yisroel far His Land. No other nation is called His as a whole array of activities is neces­ from the spilitual soil from which it nation. even though He is the Master sary for tending a vineyard, and if one is meant to draw strength? of the world. fails to perlonn them, then the best of Based on the writings of the Whereupon the King of the Kuzrim lands, most suitable for growing vines, Ramban, the Michtav MeEliyahu (Vol. is going to remain fallow, so too do spe­ Rabbi Bulman, noted thinker, author and lecturer, cially designed ma'asim (actions) and Ill) makes it clear that the relation­ serves as Menahel Ruchani in Yeshiva Ohr Toros (according to some Chachmei ship of the Jewish People to Eretz Yis­ Somayach, Jerusalem.
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