Love Of The Land For The Week Ending 1 Dec 2007 / 21 Kislev 5768 - Shechem - Tomb Of Yosef
LOVE OF THE LAND
- For the week ending 1 December 2007 / 21 Kislev 5768
- from Ohr Somayach | www.ohr.edu
-- Shechem - Tomb of Yosef
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by Rabbi Mendel Weinbach
http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/3302
The hero of this week's Torah portion and the ones following it is the
righteous Yosef.
Although he lived only 17 of his 110 years in Eretz Yisrael, he
insisted on being buried in the Holy Land.
His wish was fulfilled by the Children of Israel carrying his remains
with them for forty years on their way to the Promised Land and burying
them near Shechem in the field that his father Yaakov had bought many
years before.
Because Shechem is today populated by Arabs there has been considerable
tension between the residents and Jews who have come to pray at the
tomb of the righteous Yosef.
- For the week ending 1 December 2007 / 21 Kislev 5768
- from Ohr Somayach | www.ohr.edu
-- Shechem - Tomb of Yosef
------------------------------------------------
by Rabbi Mendel Weinbach
http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/3302
The hero of this week's Torah portion and the ones following it is the
righteous Yosef.
Although he lived only 17 of his 110 years in Eretz Yisrael, he
insisted on being buried in the Holy Land.
His wish was fulfilled by the Children of Israel carrying his remains
with them for forty years on their way to the Promised Land and burying
them near Shechem in the field that his father Yaakov had bought many
years before.
Because Shechem is today populated by Arabs there has been considerable
tension between the residents and Jews who have come to pray at the
tomb of the righteous Yosef.
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