He Who Resides in the Land is Surrounded by Sanctity


In the work Kedushat HaAretz, we find:

The general rule is that one who has merited to dwell in the Land is surrounded by holiness on all sides – up, down, inside and outside.  How so?    

  1. •Down: He is standing on holy earth.

  2. •Up: The Gates of Heaven are open towards the Land of Israel, as the     Patriarch Jacob said after his dream, “This is the Gate of Heaven.” 124 

  3. •Outside: He is surrounded by the air in which the Divine Presence dwells. 

  4. •Inside: He receives a new soul from the World of Formation, opening his heart to receive the Kingship of Heaven. As we learn in Medrash Torat Cohanim, on the verse, I will give you the Land of Canaan, to be your G-d: 125 Every Jew who lives in the Land and accepts G-d upon himself is guaranteed to receive the World to Come. 


"My sons, my sons," continues the Kedushat Haaretz, "what more I can tell you and what more can I recount to you? This is a holy land, a holy land."  (See there at length.)


In the same work, on the next page, we read:

Whoever comes to live in the Holy Land and begins to feel that he was a better servant of G-d in chutz laaretz, must repeat the words of Jacob after his dream, “Verily G-d is in this place”  126 … And he should know that if he does not sense the holiness in the Land, the problem is with him, as Jacob continued, “And I didn’t know.” And he should live securely and happily in the knowledge that he has merited to live in the Holy Land.


  1. 124.Breishit 28,17

  2. 125.Vayikra 25,38

  3. 126.Breishit 28,16


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