CHASSIDIC PEARLS ON THE PARSHA BY RABBI LAZER BRODY PARSHAS EIKEV

(PLEASE LEARN THIS FOR THE REFUA SHELAMA OF RAV CHAIM KANIEVSKY-Rav Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim ben Pesha Miriam,Rav Shteinman - Aaron Yehuda Leib ben Gitel Feiga, Rav Weiss - Yitzchak Tuvia ben Rikal, Rav Yosef - Yaakov Chai ben Margalit Harav Shlomo Leib Ben Miriam - HaRav Shlomo Brevda Harav Yeshaya Yaakov Ben Raizel - HaRav Yeshaya Yaakov Portugal Harav Meshulem Fish Ben Tziril - The Toshe Rebbe Rav Yerachmiel Shlomo Hakohen ben Raizel. -Rav Yerachmiel Shlomo Rothenberg, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva of Mountaindale Rav Shaul ben Pasha-Gavaad Zurich, Switzerland and rav of Beis Medrash Agudas Achim for a refuah shleima b’soch kol cholei am Yisrael.)(AND L"N RAV YOSEF SHALOM BEN RAV AVRAHAM(RAV ELYASHIV ZT"L)

Thanks to the Land of Israel, the Entire World Eats "A land that Hashem, your God, seeks out; the eyes of Hashem, your Go-d, are always upon it" (Devorim 11:12). Rashi interprets the above passage by telling us that Hashem's principal attention is focused on the Land of Israel; only afterwards, does He feed the rest of the world. The Ramban goes a step further: He says emphatically that all the nations of the world eat by virtue of the Land of Israel, for Hashem personally seeks her only; but, when Hashem seeks her out, the other nations receive their subsistence as well. Rebbe Nachman of Breslev explains (Likutei Moharan II:71), "There is an intellectuality of the Land of Israel and an intellectuality of the other nations. The intellectuality of the other nations feeds from the intellectuality of the Land of Israel, for the main wisdom and intellect are in the Land of Israel." The principal abundance that Hashem bestows on the world is spiritual abundance. Material abundance comes to the world totally by virtue of spiritual abundance. Although this may sound complicated, it's really a very simple concept. The material vessel called the body receives its abundance by virtue of the soul, its spiritual lifespark. Once the soul departs from the body, the body no longer receives abundance and withers into dust. Rebbe Nachman's concept of the entire world feeding off the intellectuality of the Land of Israel explains the Ramban's interpretation that all the nations of the world eat by virtue of the Land of Israel. The laws of the spiritual world are the root laws of the material world.