Everyone Can Wear the Crown of Torah

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: August 6, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Collected, adapted & translated by MOSHE KOHN
Jerusalem Post
08-06-1999
YOU shall take their place and settle in their land" (12:29) - You may not only take their place, but you may also settle and build wherever you wish.

Rabbis Yehuda ben Beteira, Mattia ben Heresh, Hanina, and Yohanan were traveling abroad. When they reached Puteoli [in Italy], they remembered Eretz Yisrael. They burst out crying, rent their clothes, recited the above passage and the passage (11:31-32), "You shall occupy [the Land] and settle in it and be careful to observe all the statutes and laws," and returned ...

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