Our Land
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The nations cannot understand why the Jewish people should have a land. “If it is G-d and scriptures and heaven that you are all about,” they claim, “then why do you want a piece of earth? Is G-d in a place? Will you find G-d in settling land, in governing a country, in defending it? Make up your mind: Is it heaven you want, or earth?”
Those words, perhaps, are never said. They are quiet words, engraved within the human psyche. And they are the bias behind all their contentions with us: We don’t belong here, on earth, where they belong, playing by their rules. Because G-d is in the heavens, and the earth belongs to humankind.
But this is the mission of the Jewish people: For all to see that the same G-d in heaven is here within the earth, within all the endeavors of humankind. For there is nothing else but Him.
Beginning with that specific, well-defined, very special piece of earth to which our destiny is tied.
A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
-words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman
Adar 17, 5767 * March 7, 2007
As my wife said, leave it to the Rebbe to put into beautiful words why Eretz Ysrael, the land of Israel, is so important, and essential, to us.
Last Friday, March 2, I decided to upgrade Wordpress as suggested by the Fantastico self-installer my webhost offers. Even though I run a site with a modified 3rd-party theme, last time I did it, all went through just fine, so I figured it’d be the same now again.
Wrong!
The upgrade as handled by Fantastico was (in the words of one of Bluehost.com’s tech-support guys) brutal, and it messed up my main site (this one). It took three days of emailing back and forth with tech support for them to restore the database to a previous all-working-fine point. At first they told me they had a copy of my site from Wed. Feb 28, which would have been peachy, but when it all was finally said and done, the database was restored to early Feb. Now, that’s not a huge deal since I really hadn’t written a lot in Feb. but it was a bit annoying.
Actually, what was really annoying was that, for some reason I cannot fully understand because I am not a coder or anything like it, the server hit some new snafu with my database restore and messed up ALL my sites except for two (the two not running on any kind of database-enabled software, just pure html), so that all across my account, everything was restored to early Feb., and on some of those sites, that did mean a lot of updates; nothing that I cannot redo in a couple of dedicated hours, but still.
I gotta learn how to work with databases so I can perform these software upgrades myself and do database restores whenever needed.
Still, happy to have everything running back again.
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