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Not for Your Righteousness

July 29, 2026 / 15 Av 5786


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July 29, 2026 / 15 Av 5786
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July 29, 2026 / 15 Av 5786
The Elah Valley in central Israel (Wirestock Creators, Shutterstock.com)
 
Shalom -, Please enjoy today's Daily Inspiration from Israel.

It is not because of your virtues and your rectitude that you will be able to possess their country; but it is because of their wickedness that the ETERNAL your God is dispossessing those nations before you, and in order to fulfill the oath that GOD made to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
לֹא בְצִדְקָתְךָ וּבְיֹשֶׁר לְבָבְךָ אַתָּה בָא לָרֶשֶׁת אֶת־אַרְצָם כִּי בְּרִשְׁעַת  הַגּוֹיִם הָאֵלֶּה יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ מוֹרִישָׁם מִפָּנֶיךָ וּלְמַעַן הָקִים אֶת־הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע יְהֹוָה לַאֲבֹתֶיךָ לְאַבְרָהָם לְיִצְחָק וּלְיַעֲקֹב
lo v'-tzid-ka-t'-KHA uv-YO-sher l'-va-v'-KHA, a-TAH VA la-RE-shet et ar-TZAM, kee b'-rish-AT ha-go-YIM ha-AY-leh, a-do-NAI e-lo-HE-kha mo-ree-SHAM mi-pa-NE-kha, ul-MA-an ha-KEEM et ha-da-VAR, a-SHER nish-BA a-do-NAI la-a-vo-TE-kha, l'-av-ra-HAM l'-yitz-KHAK ul-ya-a-KOV
Not for Your Righteousness
By Shira Schechter
In 1913, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook led a delegation of ten rabbis on a month-long journey through the new Jewish farming villages of the Galilee and Samaria. Reports had reached Jaffa and Jerusalem of young Jews working the fields on Shabbat, of kitchens with no trace of kosher dietary laws being kept, of pioneers who had shed their observance somewhere between Odessa and the Jezreel Valley and felt no particular urge to pick it back up. The rabbis went to bridge the gap.

Despite the fact that they were not yet following the commandments, Rav Kook praised them. He looked at these secular farmers and saw the first movements of redemption. Plenty of his colleagues thought he had lost his judgment, and the question they pressed on him was a fair one. How can a land promised for holiness be handed to a people who are not behaving holy?

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Blessings from the land of Israel,
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