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00:00 Welcome to another share in . Following the news about the s- collapse of the Syrian government, and that the Israeli army moved into parts of Syria, so you can't help to think back during the Yom Kippur War, that the Rebbe, in his own words, he said,and he pleaded, and he urged that they should take part of Damascus. Even if it's gonna be for a temporary period, they should take part of Damascus, and that would be a complete , and that would also help bring the closer. And the reason for this is that we find in Zechariah, so the... It says in , Zechariah period test , it says, . It says it's in "Beris Chadrach," the name of a place, and "Damesek Menuchasai" and Damesek will be his Menucha, his resting place. And on this, we find that it brings in the Midrash that, that... about this, that it says that Chadrach, it says that Chadrach in the Midrash says in the Sifri in the beginning of Devarim, it's also in , that Chadrach goes on Mashiah, who's Chad and his Rach is to, to, to, to . He's and Zof . And Damesek Menuchasai, this there it says that Damesek, meaning Damascus, is Menuchasai, is his resting place means because is gonna reach all the way to Damesek. And the Rebbe explained, because the Rebbe was the making a on Masechtes Challa for a, a yahrtzeit for his mother, Rebetzin Chana. So the Rebbe chose, uh, Masechtes Challa. So in the end of

01:52 Masechtes Challa, um, the, the Mishnah ends off, says, Ben Atninas brought B'choros from Babel, um, to, to, to, to Israel, to and they, they weren't from him. But then the Mishnah ends, Aristarchus brought B'chorim from Pampadia, which is a place in Syria, and they were from him. They did accept it from him. Why? 'Cause it says, someone who buys, gets land. In Syria, it's like he buys in the he's buying in the outskirts of Yerushalayim, meaning Syria is considered a part of the outskirts of Yerushalayim. And the Rebbe explains that why in the pasuk, even though the pasuk says Damesek, uh, 'cause Damesek is the capital of Syria, but it's really referring to the whole, to the whole Syria that that will be part of Yerushalayim. So that's one thing that we find that Yerushalayim will be extended, even Syria will be part of Yerushalayim. And this is gonna be the focus of our shiur, that we also find similarly that it says in , it's also near Sh- uh, right in the, right in the beginning, and also near in on, on Yeshaya that brings that the meaning that the Eretz Yisrael will be like Yerushalayim, and the rest of the world will be like Eretz Yisrael. And it goes on, how are they gonna get there? Uh, how are they gonna be it says clouds are gonna come, and they're gonna bring them to, to, to Yerushalayim. So what we see from here that the whole world will be like Eretz, like Eretz

03:36 Yisrael. So on a, on a simple reading, what, what is pshat that the whole world will be like Eretz Yisrael? So this is similar to what we find in the, in the Rambam. Rambam so he brings that the, the lands that Dovra Melech conquered outside of Eretz Yisrael, like Aram Naharaim, Aram Tzevo, these are places in, in, in Syria. So even though he was a Melech, and even though he did it all , it's not like the rest of the Israel like everything, but it's still not like . In other words, it went out of the Geder of but to be the of Eretz Yisrael didn't, didn't become. Why? Why is it not mamash like Eretz Yisrael? Because he conquered it before he conq- finished conquering the rest of Eretz Yisrael. But had he conquered it after he had conquered Eretz Yisrael, had he then gone to Syria and conquered it, so then it would have mamash had the din of Er- Er- of Eretz Yisrael, and these lands are called Syria. And then the, the Rambam brings the differences about why, how is it like Syria, and how is it like... H- how is Syria like Eretz Yisrael, and how is it like Eretz Yisrael? For one example is that if you, if you, you buy land there. So in Eretz Yisrael, there's a din if you buy land in Eretz Yisrael, and you know, the only time to get it is, is, is on, on Shabbos. Uh, you have to sign the contract.

05:03 So you're allowed to do it through a, a goy. You're allowed to have him sign it, write it up o- on Shabbos 'cause you might lose it, and it's a mitzvah to be to get land. And the same thing would apply to Syria, that you could do it even on Shabbos. So based on this, we would say that what does it mean that the rest of the world will be like Eretz Yisrael? It means that once you conquer Eretz Yisrael, then you get the rest of the world, so then that rest of the world has the din of Eretz Yisrael. On this din, in the Rambam, so the Raavad writes, the Radvaz, I'm sorry, writes that, um, there is Shmashma that write that these other lands, the... that these other, these other lands that they're gonna conquer after we conquer Eretz Yisrael, even though these are lands that weren't given to Abraham Avinu, uh, they're gonna have the same kedusha as the rest of Eretz Yisrael. But he writes, . He's, he's very hesitant to, to say something like that. And perhaps he says maybe it's only for trumah maaser that we say for the dinim that are totally about earth, that's what we mean that it's gonna be like Eretz Yisrael, but not that it's gonna have the kedushah of Eretz Yisrael. He's very hesitant to say that, that it's gonna have the real kedushah of Eretz Yisrael, and he leaves off with a tzorech iyun to say that. However, as we just brought

06:29 from the Rambam, the Rambam writes that if they do it in their correct order, hadavar ma'al done in the correct order, it would be like Eretz Yisrael, the whole dover, which seems to imply that holy has the same holiness as Eretz Yisrael. And the same thing we find in the Ramban, uh, on, on Torah, Yir'ah Aleph Chaf Dalet. He also writes that the, that the whole... that if you conquer it, e-everything you conquer afterwards, the, the mitzvah school and I guess behind kichal ha'arets, kichal ha'arets Yisrael, it's gonna be like the rest of Eretz Yisrael. It's the, the-these lands that you conquer, if you get them later, they're mamesh like Eretz Yisrael. If so, the question is, if, if we say all these lands are like Eretz Yisrael, so what is it that we're daven? We know if we daven every day, a few times a day, um, that we should have kibbutz galuyot and we should go to Eretz Yisrael. Um, if the, if everywhere is Eretz Yisrael, w-why-- what is this that we're going to Eretz Yisrael? Everywhere is gonna become Eretz Yisrael. Yet, at the same time, we find that they're seemingly gonna live, the Yidden are gonna live in Eretz Yisrael. Uh, the Rambam in this, in this very Perek, in Halakha Chaf Vav, uh, he goes on and said-- explains that trumah was ma'aser even in places where the Eretz Yisrael, they, they, they got it in the Me'ezra. It's not ma'aseh, it's only midirabanan, uh, because trumah is only

07:56 ma'aseh, only in Eretz Yisrael. And when all the Yidden are there, like it's gonna be, like it's gonna be when the Yidden go back, Yerushas Rishis. So then when you-- all the Yidden is gonna be, gonna return to Eretz Yisrael, and they're gonna live in that land, so then again it'll be, trumah will be midir'aisah. And similarly, we find in, in, in the Kotizixis, Cheilechafay, uh, one twenty-seven, that he also explains, the Rebbe explains that, that, that m-when Mashiach is gonna come, so all the Yidden are gonna live in Eretz Yisrael. So I-- how are we gonna be able to be pal, this that we're supposed to have an effect on the rest of the world and all the nations of the world, Shabbos Benayeh and so on. So the Rebbe explains, then in the times of Mashiach, it's gonna be that people are gonna come, but not all of all the Goyim. All the Goyim are gonna come there. People are gonna come to Eretz Yisrael, and through that, we're gonna be able to be have a shfa on them. But not that we're gonna be living in the rest of the world, we're gonna be living in Eretz Yisrael. So if we're gonna be living in the Eretz Yisrael, so what does this mean that we're-- the whole world is Eretz Yisrael? If the whole world is Eretz Yisrael, why do we have to live over, over there? So one answer we find in the Shaloh. The Shaloh in, in Beis David, uh,

09:21 cheilek, um, cheilek alef, it's ois, it's ois nun in the ois vahader editions of the Shaloh. So he asks a question. It says that when Mashiach is gonna come, Hashem's gonna add, we're gonna have another... right? We're gonna ha-add another three Ari Miklat, and that's gonna be, uh, king, king of the Kagmeni, meaning Amon, Yemov, and Edom because Hashem-- we know that Hashem promised that there's gonna be ten nations, that Eretz Yisrael is gonna encompass ten nations, not just, just the, not just the seven. S-so the question he asks, what, what is the big deal that Sh- that we're, we're saying when Mashiach is gonna come, we're gonna have these three, these three, three countries as well? Seemingly, Mashiach is gonna rule over the whole world. So, so what are you getting? These three is not just gonna be these three, it's gonna be, it's gonna be So, so what, what, what does it mean? As he said, maybe we could answer that Mashiach is gonna rule everywhere, but there's, it's gonna be different degrees. That the rest of the world is gonna be... he's gonna rule it, they're just gonna have to pay him taxes. They're gonna-- and then-- and these ten lands that we're gonna have, meaning the seven plus the, another three, so that's gonna be under, under Mashiach completely. But he says that's really a dechak to say that there's gonna be... in other words, if, if, if they're just under for taxes, means that for other things, they're not under

10:47 Mashiach. So to say that there's part of Malchus Hashara, of the Umes HaElok, the-- of having their own sharah, separate sharah, when Mashiach come, that's a very big dechak. Therefore, he says that perhaps not right at the beginning of the Mash- of, of the, of the Geulah is, is gonna, is, is, is gonna be in-- over the whole world. The Mashal of Mashiach gonna be over the whole world. First, it's gonna start just this, just this area, just these ten, just these ten lands. When the, when the klipa is gonna be nispatel more, we're gonna refine the world more in a higher level. So then it's gonna be re'ehim yom ad yom and, and, and the, and then that's when where it's gonna be over the entire world. So based on that, you can say, "Why go to Eretz Yisrael?" 'Cause Eretz Yisrael, right away, that's gonna be part of Eretz Yisrael. And in a chanamim, later on, when the rest of the world is refined, so then we could go, then we'll be in the next, the, the rest-- then, then we'll be able to be in the rest of the world. However, while that's maybe one way of explaining it, we find in the Kotitera, uh, Parshas Massei, uh, that petes on the base. So there, the Alter Rebbe also brings this Mamai Razal that the Sidre Eretz Yisrael . So he explains that the whole world is gonna be in the Madrega of Eretz Israel, that, that Eretz, Eretz Israel is now.

12:18 But then, Eretz Israel itself is gonna be, be the Madrega of Yerushalayim now. So in other words, it comes out, when you say Yerushalayim, it's gonna be-- everything is gonna go a step up. In other words, and the, the Rebbe explains on, on this in, in Chaf, Chaf Menachem Av, Taf Shin Chaf Alef, that also when Mashiach comes, there's gonna-- when, and Eretz Israel is, is gonna be in the whole world, there's still gonna be different Madregas in... There's still gonna be different Madregas in, in Kedusha. So this we find in, in the Mishnah in Keilim, Perek Alef, Mishnah Vav, and going on, right? It says, it lists the ten different levels of Kedusha. Now over here it starts from Eretz Israel. That Eretz Israel is holy from old, old, and it says, what, what, what does it mean that it's-- what and what's, what and what is it that it's holier so they could bring the Omer and the Bikkurim from, from Eretz Israel? Then it goes on. The next step is, uh, uh, cities that have a wall around it, that you can have a Um, and then you have the step above that, which is Yerushalayim, that you could eat in, in Yerushalayim. So the Rebbe says these ten Madregas will also have different Madregas when Mashiach comes. And the Rebbe adds, the only thing is that now we start saying the da- the levels of Kedusha from Eretz Israel. That's, uh, well, when Mashiach comes, in other-- that's how the Mishnah

13:51 starts. When Mashiach comes, it's gonna start at-- we're gonna start the levels from But nevertheless, it's gonna be different levels of, of Kedusha, and it's gonna be holier. Uh, an explanation of this, we can explain based on the-- what's explained in, in, in, in, in many sefarim. It's also found as in Midrashim. But it's explained a-at length, we find this in the sefer Kaftor V'Ferach. Uh, Kaftor V'Ferach is a sefer, uh, so it's officially written by Rabbi Yisrael Haprochi, uh, which is really a pen name for Rabbi Yitzchak Akohen. Um, he lived in twelve eighty, passed away thirteen fifty-five. Um, he wrote a sefer Kaftor V'Ferach. He wrote the sefer after he was expelled he-- from France by the expulsion of France, uh, thirteen oh six. So he was expelled, he went to Spain, and then he went to Mitzrayim, eventually went to Eretz Israel, and he wrote the sefer Kaftor V'Ferach, which is the first sefer, um, going through the halachas of Eretz Israel, but not just the halachas of Eretz Israel, also going through the geography of Eretz Israel and different things that grow in Eretz Israel. And this is the first sefer that is brought down by many, all the subsequent se-sefarim bring this sefer when it's talking about Eretz Israel. And in fact, even, uh, lehavdil, the non-Jewish sources also bring-- he has many things that he has there. We talk about the geography and where different things are. They also bring it from this sefer. So he explains, and this

15:23 again, this is, this is found in other places also. It's, uh, really in Midrash, in Gemaras. Uh, we've, we've seen, we see this in the Rambam also, that there's, that there's, that there's really there's, there's, there's two things. This that Eretz Israel is, is, is holy, we find this already before the Yidden captured Eretz Israel, right? We find that Hashem promises to Abraham, uh, Yitzchak. So really from the beginning of creation, Hashem, Hashem, Hashem, we, we see that Eretz Israel has-- is, is already holy. So this whole discussion about, about the, about the kibbush, when the, when the Yidden conquered Eretz Israel, if, if it's, if, if the first conquering of Eretz Israel, if that's something that's, that's, that's, that the Kedusha stays or it doesn't stay, and when by, by, by Ezra and so on, all of that discussion, he says that's only about the chiyuv of the mitzvahs that are totally in the arts. But the holiness of the land itself, that's r- ready, that's ready, that's, that's, that's higher than everything. That's not really dependent upon whether the Yidden are, are, are there or not. And, and then we see this really in, in, in the Rambam also when he, when he's talking about the Kedusha Rishona. But he says once it's k- kadosh, it's kadosh and has a Kedusha. I mean, in, in, in, in, in In other words, the, the, the Kedusha is something that stays there, and it's not dependent upon whether the Yidden are there or not. We

16:51 find that the Rebbe explains in, in Sichos Chelek Yud Ches, page four oh two, that there's two things in Eretz Israel. There's the Kedusha, this, this thing that Hashem chose, Hashem chose Eretz Israel, and then there's another concept in Eretz Israel, the Kedusha of Eretz Israel. That that's as, as it says in the Mechilta, and then, uh, once that Eretz Israel, once that, once that Eretz Israel was chosen, so in other words, there's two things. There's the, there's the kriya of Hashem, Eretz Israel, that was always there. That's what was from before, and then there's what we do there. And we see this also in, in, uh, Likut-- in, in, in Sicha Chaf Av, Taf Shin Chaf Tes, that the Rebbe over here explains about the difference between Yerushalayim and the other batei hareichima in Eretz Israel. That we said, right, both of them have a Kedusha. And regular cities that have a wall around them and Eretz Israel also, and, uh, s- and, and Yerushalayim also, and Yerushalayim also has a wall around it. So what's the difference? So the Rebbe explains that the walls around Yerushalayim, they don't make the Kedusha of Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim is, is kadosh on its own. The walls are a siman to where the Kedusha of Yerushalayim goes to, as opposed to the walls, the other batei-- the, the other hareichima, those cities, the wall itself makes a Kedusha to those cities. What comes out from here is that there's a difference, even though we say that the whole

18:35 world is Eretz Israel, even if you go through the procedure as the Rambam brings about how to add on to Yerushalayim or how to add on to the Beis Hamikdash, and let's say they d- they do that, but nevertheless, there's still a difference between the part that's added on and the part that was always Eretz Israel, was always Yerushalayim, was always the Beis Hamikdash. That those parts are intrinsically have a Kedusha, a higher Kedusha that, that the Habeshter chose, s- uh, that Habeshter chose those places, and those places have an intrinsic Kedusha that are higher than the rest of the places. that in terms of chiyuv hamitzvas, what you're gonna add onto Yerushalayim, what you're gonna-- what, or what Eretz Israel is added on, um, the, the rest of the world. So they have the mitzvahs, you, you are mechuyav give maaser or, or terumah, maaser, whatever it is, in those places. But in terms of Kedusha, they don't have the same Kedusha as whatever was Eretz Israel m'lachat chila. And therefore, it would make sense that even though we would say that the whole world is like Eretz Israel, and the whole Eretz Israel is like Yerushalayim, nevertheless, people, when, when Mashiach is gonna come, we want kibbutz galuyos and go dafka to Eretz Israel because Eretz Israel has a higher Kedusha than the rest of the world. May we taakah bizechah to the coming of the, of the, of Mashiach and the geulah shleimah speedily in our days.