Daily Chizuk #1243

The danger in Israel is at a very high level, yet its residents are walking the streets calm and cool. If we ask them why they aren’t fleeing the country, they will ask us why we aren’t going there. Rabbi Menashe Reisman explained this phenomenon with the Sefat Emet in parashat Behar who said that there is a special blessing in the Land that even the common citizen has a very high level of bitachon there. He brings it from the midrash on the pasuk וישבתם לבטח בארצכם – in the Land of Israel the people will dwell in security. With this, he explains that the mitzvah of Shemita is only in Israel, because only there can every farmer have the bitachon to leave their lands fallow for an entire year. Something that seems reckless to the common person is a matter of fact to those who live in the Land.
Of course the people in Israel have to be careful and heed all the warning sirens and make the proper hishtadlut to be safe, but we are happy to know that their everyday lives are even calmer than ours. They are enjoying the special beracha of the Land. May Hashem bring us all there with the coming of the Mashiach bekarov. Amen