The Hebrew expression Torat Eretz Yisrael (literally "Teachings concerning the Land of Israel") refers to the idea that Torah thoughts emanating from the land of Israel are of great religious status. In the

Midrash ''Midrash'' (;"midrash"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. he, מִדְרָשׁ; ...

Genesis Rabbah it is stated: “there is no Torah like the Torah of the Land of Israel, and there is no wisdom like the wisdom of the Land of Israel." Another midrash in the

Sifre Sifre ( he, סִפְרֵי; ''siphrēy'', ''Sifre, Sifrei'', also, ''Sifre debe Rab'' or ''Sifre Rabbah'') refers to either of two works of '' Midrash halakha'', or classical Jewish legal biblical exegesis, based on the biblical books of Number ...

indicates that there is a unique flavor to the land of Israel because the Torah is located in it. The term “Torat Eretz Yisrael” has lately become associated with religious writings on the ''Land of Israel'' ("

Eretz Yisrael The Land of Israel () is the traditional Jewish name for an area of the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine (see also Israe ...

"), in particular those conforming to a religious-Zionist point of view. Such teachings achieve prominence in the works of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, the first religious-Zionist Chief Rabbi of the modern-day State of Israel. See the lecture of Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky on this topic at: https://www.etzion.org.il/en/shiur-18-torat-eretz-yisrael Today, for example, these continue in the works and teachings of Rabbi

David Bar-Hayim David Hanoch Yitzchak Bar-Hayim (Hebrew: דוד חנוך יצחק ב"ר חיים; born Mandel; born 24 February 1960) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi who heads the Shilo Institute (''Machon Shilo''), a Jerusalem-based rabbinical court and institut ...

and David Samson amongst others.

References

Gen.Rab. 16:4 Sifre, Ekev 37 See the heb. wikipedia article on this subject https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/torat eretz yisroel See the lecture of Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky on this topic at: https://www.etzion.org.il/en/shiur-18-torat-eretz-yisrael

External links

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