Truth, Faith and Holiness CVI Ḥasidism to the Zionist enterprise ? Years ago I was told by one of the prominent figures in the court of Gur that he preferred the search of the true land of Israel in exile, where precisely it can be looked for and found, rather than bringing exile to the land of Israel, walking there in the footsteps of the Canaanites . Is not this attitude the direct outcome of the spiritual doctrines presented here ? The Land of Israel and Canaan CV ‘Nature,’ the land of Israel is defective, in spite of all the achievements of its civilization, and should be referred to as ‘waste,’ and only in its innerness, which can be seen, experienced, and manifested only by the people of Israel, is it holy ! Their entering the land signifies the ‘correction of creation,’ 79 separating good from evil and freeing the land from the Canaanites to become the dwelling place of God and His property, 80 instead of ‘the heritage of the nations’ or the impure Gentiles . We have to conclude...
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