Chapter 2
The More Jews in the Land, the Better
In order that all this abundance and blessing be actualized, there must be a great wealth of Jews in the Land of Israel, as taught by the Holy Zohar (Lech Lecha 80a): When Avraham saw that famine had hit the Land, he realized that the land was not yet perfected and ready to be sanctified – and that it could not be perfected under the current conditions. How did he know this? Because G-d told him that He had given the land to "your seed" – not to "you and your seed." He thus understood that the land could not be sanctified without the "holy seed," his descendants that were to be born from him. He therefore left the land and went down to Egypt to make the necessary "repairs" from without.
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