This week’s Torah reading praises the Land of Israel by saying (11:12): “A land that G-d watches constantly, the eyes of G-d are on it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.” At first glance, all this is strange. First, what does it mean that G-d looks at Israel from the beginning of the year to the end? Why doesn’t it just say “constantly”?  And why does it say that if Jews do the commandments, G-d will give Israel to Abraham, etc. Won’t G-d give it to all the Jews? And what do the commandments have to do with raising the dead? And what will the dead do with Israel? • Full Article

Enjoy another Beautiful Mamar of the Rebbe in Honor of Shabbas Parsha Eikev by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, Shliach in Southwest Florida. On the Kabbalah of the Manna –  ויאכילך את המן • Watch