Humility Helps Us Achieve the Land of Israel


As long as a person has the negative traits of arrogance and pride, he will not be able to merit all this goodness, nor will he be able to merit the Land of Israel.  But if he repents, and takes hold of the traits of humility and submissiveness, he will then be helped to comprehend the sanctity of the Land and to long for it; our Sages teach that whoever comes to be purified, is helped along. 


The author of Birkat HaAretz writes: 122

The Torah states, “The Land is very, very good.” 123 Its repetition of the word ‘very” can be understood according to the dictum of our Sages, “Be very, very humble” - for it is impossible to sense the holiness of the Land unless he is very, very humble, and then he will see that the Land is very, very good.  For this reason, the Land was called Canaan, from the Hebrew root meaning “surrender” – for without true surrender and meekness, one cannot feel the Land’s sanctity.

  1. 122.page 34

  2. 123.Bamidbar 14,7



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