Shivchei HaRan, An Account of His Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
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וְאָמַר רַבֵּנוּ ז"ל: מִי שֶׁיּוֹדֵעַ מִפְּנֵי מָה הָיְתָה אֶרֶץ־יִשְׂרָאֵל תְּחִלָּה בְּיַד כְּנַעַן וְאַחַר־כָּךְ בָּאָה לְיַד יִשְׂרָאֵל, הוּא יוֹדֵעַ מִפְּנֵי מָה הוּא הָיָה תְּחִלָּה בְּקַאמִינִיץ וְאַחַר־כָּךְ בְּאֶרֶץ־יִשְׂרָאֵל.
Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973
The Rebbe said, “Whoever knows why the Land of Israel was first in the hands of the Canaanites and only later settled by the Jews, knows why I journeyed to Kaminetz before traveling to the Holy Land” (see Likutey Halakhot, Milah 3).