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Questions related to the religiously-defined geographical area, the Land of Israel / *Eretz Yisrael*.
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Significance of Dead Sea
The Midrash Tanchuma in Parshas Lech L'cha (8) writes:
עָשׂוּ מִלְחָמָה אֶת בֶּרַע, שֶׁהָיָה רַע לַשָּׁמַיִם וְלַבְּרִיּוֹת. בִּרְשַׁע, שֶׁנַּעֲשָׂה רָשָׁע. שִׁנְאָב, שֶׁהָיָה שׂוֹנֵא לָאָב שֶׁבַּ …
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Is every fourth step in EY a mitzvah?
The Gemara Ketubot (111a) states that anyone who walks four amot (cubits) is assured a place in the World to Come:
א"ר ירמיה בר אבא א"ר יוחנן: כל המהלך ארבע אמות בארץ ישראל - מובטח לו שהוא בן העול …
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Vayigash - Why didn't the family go back?
There are several possibilities.
R. Saadya Gaon doesn’t list the prohibition for an individual to dwell in Egypt in his listing of the 613 precepts, but only a proscription of a monarch to send peop …
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Why are specifically the land of Israel and the Torah called a "Morasha"?
HaKtav V'HaKabbalah to Exodus (6:8) suggests that 'yerusha' would imply something to be immediately received, whereas 'morasha' would imply something to be constantly passed on. Accordingly, both the …
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Why did Moshe want to go into Eretz Yisroel
The Meshekh Hokhmah (Deuteronomy 11:31) answers that before the land was apportioned into tribes, the mitsvah of settling the land of Israel included Transjordan. Accordingly, Moshe already fulfilled …
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Tosafos - Not a mitzvah to live in Israel since can't keep the land mitzvos
TL;DR There are multiple approaches to Rabbenu Hayyim. In summary: Either A) Rabbenu Hayyim's view is incomprehensible and he never said it (Maharit) or B) He did say it. Accordingly, either B1) he sa …
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Where is "Nachal Mitzrayim"?
According to Rav Sadya Gaon (a native of Egypt) in his Tafsir to Numbers (34:5) this refers to Wadi al-Arish.
According to Rashi, (a native of France), in his commentary to Joshua (13:3), nahal Mits …
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Is a gentile living in Eretz Yisrael obligated to be circumcised?
To paraphrase this article on the seforimblog:
Raphael Shuchat notes that in a manuscript version of the Aderet Eliyahu text there is an important addition:
ואפילו הגוים הדרים בא"י צריכים לקיים כ …
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Why does G-d tell Yitchak to remain in Cana'an?
The next verse (26:3) states that the reason was that God would bless him and give the land of Canaan to Yitshak and his descendants.
Rashi to Genesis (26:2) states that Yitshak was not supposed to l …
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No Flood in Israel?
TL;DR It is a matter of dispute in Zevahim whether or not Israel was inundated by the flood. According to the opinion that it was not, there is some indication that some animals and / or people surviv …
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