...and My eyes and My heart will be there all of the days.

(Melachim I 9:3)

This Divine promise in regard to the Beit HaMikdash which King Solomon built in Jerusalem is understood by outstanding commentaries as a signal to all Jews to constantly turn their eyes and hearts to Eretz Yisrael and to always desire to return there.

(Rabbi Yonasan Eybshutz, Ya’arot Devash)

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