Love of the Land - Other Worldly Experiences
  Selections from classical Torah sources which express the special relationship between the People of Israel and Eretz Yisrael OTHER WORLDLY EXPERIENCES "Whoever resides in Eretz Yisrael, recites the Shma in the morning and evening and speaks lashon hakodesh (the sacred Hebrew tongue) is considered a member of the World to Come."
This statement by Rabbi Meir
(Sifri Parshas Ha'azinu 32:43) does not relate to inheriting
the World to Come, because we have already been taught (Sanhedrin
90a) that "All of Israel have a share in the World to
Come;" not only those who perform these particular acts.
It refers to how one can live a "World to Come" existence
in this world. The Jew who lives in the holy land blessed by
Hashem, pledges his allegiance to Him morning and evening, and
speaks in the language with which Hashem created His world and
wrote His Torah, is experiencing something of the intimacy with
Hashem which the World to Come is all about. He is like a citizen
of that infinite world who is on a temporary visit in this finite
one.
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