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The Land of Israel & Tikun HaYesod
The Tikunei Zohar explains that man’s first primordial sin in the Garden of Eden was a sexual transgression. Ever since that time, it has been the task of mankind to rectify this sin which shattered the symbiosis between the Creator and His creation. As we have learned, this rectification is called Tikun HaYesod. Every individual who safeguards his personal sexual life is taking a part in this historic, world rectification.
The Arizal teaches that after Cain murdered Abel, Adam separated from his wife for 130 years, afraid to bring more offspring into the world. During these years, evil forces plagued him, causing him to spill semen in vain. These lost souls were captured by the realm of evil, and with mankind’s subsequent immoral decline, they became imprisoned in the land of Egypt, the sexual cesspool of the world. This is why, the Arizal explains, that the Jewish People had to leave the Land of Israel and descend to bondage in Egypt – in order to liberate these kidnapped souls. This was to bring about a world, historic rectification that would return mankind to its exalted holy status of the Garden of Eden. On a mystical level, these liberated souls were “the great wealth” that the Jews carried out of Egypt on the way to Eretz Yisrael. But with the sin of the Golden Calf, and the sexual transgression that accompanied it, the Jewish People failed in their mission. The awaited world rectification, Tikun HaYesod, was to be accomplished in the future - with the conquest of Eretz Yisrael, with the cleansing of sexual sin from the land, and with the building of the Temple in Jerusalem.
However, this tikun was short lived. With the immoral decline of the Jews in Israel, especially sexual sin, the Temples were destroyed, and the Jews were expelled from their land and cast into exile. Jewish nationhood was destroyed, damaging the channel of Yesod, and cutting off G-d’s blessing to the world, which comes down to mankind through the national life of the Jewish People in Eretz Yisrael.
On a mystical level, this dispersion amongst the impure nations of the world represents the dispersion of the sparks of holiness of the semen that was wasting through transgressions of the Jewish People and captured by the realm of evil.
In Kabbalistic terms, Eretz Yisrael, the Holy Land, represents the female principle of Malchut, the vessel created especially for the development of the Jewish People and for the establishment of the Kingdom of G-d in the world.
Just as the dispersion of the Jews parallels the dispersion of the lost holy souls, it is the ingathering of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel from the four corners of the earth that redeems these scattered spiritual children, reunited the sefirah of Yesod with Malchut.
This ingathering of the Jewish exiles to Eretz Yisrael is the ultimate world-historic Tikun HaYesod, bringing about the redemption of all the lost souls, the redemption of Israel, and the redemption of the world in its wake.
In this light, we can understand the great importance of the rebuilding of the Jewish Nation in the Land of Israel, and also understand why the forces of evil in the world are so against the resettlement of the Jewish People in its Land.
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