Rosh HaYeshiva, Machon Meir
“Let the nations praise His people, for He will avenge His servants’ blood. He will bring vengeance upon His foes, and reconcile His people and land” (Devarim 32:43).
Rashi comments on the first part, ‘Let the nations praise His People’ - “Times will come when the nations praise Israel for having clung to G-d and having not left Him despite all the suffering they underwent. Quite the contrary, they recognized G-d’s goodness and praiseworthiness even when they were in the darkness of exile.”
Regarding the last part of this verse, ‘He will reconcile His people and land’, Rashi comments - “G-d will propitiate His land and His people over the troubles that befell them and the things their enemies did to them. And what is G-d’s ‘Land’? His people, the Jewish People. When His people are comforted, His land is comforted.”
Today, we are privileged to be living in Eretz Yisrael at a time when millions of Jews are gathering here from all over the world, and the State of Israel is developing in gigantic strides. All of these are a tangible expression of G-d’s being reconciled to the People and Land of Israel, which are one. As Rav Kook said (Orot 9), “Eretz Yisrael is an independent unit bound by living ties to the nation.”
During these times, days of repentance and reconciliation, and especially on Yom Kippur, the day of reconciliation between man and G-d and between man and man, we must recognize G-d’s goodness and kindness to us. By doing so, we will merit to renew our days as of old, and through us will be fulfilled the words of the prophet, “Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you” (Yechezkeil 36:25).
Shabbat Shalom,
G'mar Chatima Tova,
Looking forward to salvation,
With the Love of Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael.
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