Had He given us the Sabbath but not brought us near Mount Sinai: By bringing the people close to Mount Sinai, the Israelites acquired a sense of holiness and came to understand that God wishes them to strive for holiness. By bringing us to Sinai, God also gave us the Torah through which we attained holiness and made us worthy of entering the Holy Land, the very land of which is holy. And by entering the Holy Land we were allowed to build the Holy Temple through which we could be purified from sin and continue to live continually in holiness. This explains the final verse of Dayyenu: Had He brought us to the land of Israel and not allowed us to build the Holy Temple…