1. 2.Breishit 12, 2

3. On Parashat Lekh Lekha

4. Breishit 28, 17

5. A Tannaitic Halakhic-Medrashic work

  1. 6.Dvarim 33, 25

  2. 7.Yeshayahu 2, 3



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Jewish People Bring Abundance by Living in the Land


By virtue of Israel’s dwelling in its Land, the abundance of all the worlds will multiply, so as to be emptied onto our Land. Thus will be fulfilled G-d's promise to Avraham, And you shall be a blessing, 2 as is explained in the Holy Zohar (Breishit 78a): "And you shall be a blessing – from the side of the Land of Israel."


The saintly Rakanati wrote: 3

G-d uprooted Avraham from his natural place and planted him anew in an inner location in the Land of Israel – for there the blessings would be manifest upon him… 

The words And you shall be a blessing allude to the fact that Avraham himself will be a blessing (brachah, in Hebrew), just like a water pool (breichah) that purifies those who are impure.  And our Land, the gate to the heavens, 4 will be a source of abundance, both materially and spiritually, for the entire world. 

As is written in the Sifri 5 and explained by Rashi on the verse, Iron and copper are your locks, and your strength shall increase [overflow] each day: 6 "For as long as you [plural] fulfill G-d's will, the Land of Israel will be blessed with produce [for export], and silver and gold will overflow from the other lands into the Land."

And spiritual abundance will also be rooted in the Land of Israel, as is written, From Zion, Torah shall come forth. 7