## Ephod Bad on Pesach Haggadah, Magid, Dayenu

###### Ephod Bad on Pesach Haggadah, Magid, Dayenu 15:1
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**אלו הכניסנו לא"י ולא בנה לנו את בינת הבחירה דיינו,**כי גם בא"י לבד בלא בית הבחירה היינו תחת השגחתו ממש. אבל אע"פ שא"י מקודשת מכל הארצות, אבל המקום הנבחר והמקודש מכל הארץ הוא בהמ"ק והנקודה היותר מקודשת היא ק"ק ושם היא הקדושה המוחלטת וההשגחה האמתית, משם יתפשט הניצוץ האלהי לכל העולם. ושם באו אל המנוחה ואל הנחלה לנחול שפע והשגחה וקדושת אלהי לבא אל תכלית כל השלימות, והוא השלימות האמתי בדעות רמות ונשגבות בידיעות האלהי, ועל מי מנוחות נהלם ממעלה למעלה ממדה למדה משלימות לשימות, עדי היו יפה נוף משוש כל הארץ:

**Rabbi Mark Greenspan:**
**If God had brought us into the land of Israel and not built for us the Temple, it would have been enough.** According to Yehudah Halevi in his philosophical tract, the Kuzari, Israel became a godly people in a godly land. There is a unique relationship between the people of Israel and the holy land. No other land can illustrate the deeds of God like the land of Israel because there are ways in which we can serve God only in this place: by bringing the first fruits to the Temple, the sabbatical year, and the Jubilee year. The other nations are not as receptive of divine providence, or of being in a place through which one can cleave to God. At Mount Sinai, the people were not receptive of receiving God‟s word. They asked Moses to receive the Torah for them and then to tell them about it. This is because the Israelites were not yet in the land of Israel, in a place where they could easily receive the „divine abundance‟ as they can in the land of Israel. Therefore, just to be in the land of Israel even without the Temple would have been sufficient. Having said that, it should be pointed out that while the whole land of Israel is holy and infused with divine providence, Jerusalem is even more so; and of all the places in Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the Holy of Holies is even closer to the divine spark through which one acquires divine wisdom. And the divine providence shines forth from this point…