{"id":5209937,"date":"2026-02-15T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breslev.co.il\/?p=5209937"},"modified":"2026-02-15T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:27:12","slug":"prayer-for-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/5209937\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for the Land"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everything I see in the Land of Israel is a gift\u00a0You\u00a0place into my hands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The cliffs of Masada rising over the Dead Sea \u2014 mine.\u00a0<\/span>
The almond blossoms bursting white in the Galilee \u2014 mine.\u00a0<\/span>
The red\u00a0kalanit\u00a0flowers igniting the fields of the Negev \u2014 mine.\u00a0<\/span>
The olive groves of the Judean Hills twisting under ancient sun \u2014 mine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not because I claimed them.\u00a0<\/span>
Not because I conquered them.\u00a0<\/span>
But because Hashem gave them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All the Land of Israel I see belongs to me \u2014 and to every Jew.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not because a politician signed a paper.\u00a0<\/span>
Not because a general drew a border.\u00a0<\/span>
Not because a coalition survived another vote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not Benjamin Netanyahu.\u00a0<\/span>
Not Naftali Bennett.\u00a0<\/span>
Not Yair Lapid.\u00a0<\/span>
Not Avigdor Lieberman.\u00a0<\/span>
Not tycoons.\u00a0<\/span>
Not elites.\u00a0<\/span>
Not the powerful or the praised.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Land was not handed to us by men.\u00a0<\/span>
It\u00a0was promised by Hashem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Every tree rooted in the Land of Israel.\u00a0<\/span>
Every wildflower breaking through her ancient rock.\u00a0<\/span>
Every stream carving its path through her hills.\u00a0<\/span>
Every dune shaped by her desert winds.\u00a0<\/span>
Every fig ripening under her sun.\u00a0<\/span>
Every stalk of wheat bowing in her valleys.\u00a0<\/span>
Every olive grove twisted with memory.\u00a0<\/span>
Every vineyard clinging to her mountains.\u00a0<\/span>
Every stone warmed by the same light that warmed our fathers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not politics.\u00a0<\/span>
It is covenant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Land of Israel is not a trophy. It is not a headline. It is not a negotiation.\u00a0<\/span>
It is a gift \u2014 fierce, sacred, and alive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It belongs to every Jew.\u00a0<\/span>
To the scholar bent over his books.\u00a0<\/span>
To the soldier on the border.\u00a0<\/span>
To the child running through her fields.\u00a0<\/span>
To the exile who still whispers, \u201cNext year.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It belongs to me \u2014 not because I earned it, but because my\u00a0Father\u00a0gave it.\u00a0<\/span>
A birthright sealed not in ink, but in eternity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am part of the Land of Israel, and she is woven into my soul.\u00a0<\/span>
Her dust clings to my prayers.\u00a0<\/span>
Her wind carries my name.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This Land is not granted by governments.\u00a0<\/span>
It is given by God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u00a0stand\u00a0on soil promised before I was born.\u00a0<\/span>
Her dust rises with my prayers and settles into my soul.\u00a0<\/span>
This Land is not claimed by my\u00a0strength, but\u00a0granted by His word.\u00a0<\/span>
This is my home,\u00a0bestowed by God\u2019s promise,\u00a0sealed by God\u2019s command,\u00a0secured by His eternal word, and\u00a0placed into my hands as an eternal inheritance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

***\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

David Ben Horin<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0lives in Afula with his family, 60,000 passionate Israelis, and Matilda, our local camel.\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything I see in the Land of Israel is a gift\u00a0You\u00a0place into my hands.\u00a0 The cliffs of Masada rising over the Dead Sea \u2014 mine.\u00a0The almond blossoms bursting white in the Galilee \u2014 mine.\u00a0The red\u00a0kalanit\u00a0flowers igniting the fields of the Negev \u2014 mine.\u00a0The olive groves of the Judean Hills twisting under ancient sun \u2014 mine.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Prayer for the Land”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62109,"featured_media":5209949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[15745],"tags":[20834,22432],"author_post":[16252],"new_serie":[],"class_list":["post-5209937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel-and-aliyah","tag-jewish-people","tag-land-of-israel","author_post-david-ben-horin"],"acf":{"paragraph_first":"","paragraph_second":"","meta_title":"Prayer for the Land","meta_description":"The land of Israel, eretz Yisrael, is Hashem\u2019s beautiful gift of inheritance to each one of us. It is up to us to claim it!","special_content_in_the_post":"none","youtube":"","intro_text":"

The land of Israel,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>eretz<\/span>\u00a0Yisrael<\/span><\/span><\/em>, is Hashem\u2019s beautiful gift of inheritance to each one of us.<\/span><\/span> It is up to us to claim it!<\/span><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5209937"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209943,"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209937\/revisions\/5209943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5209949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209937"},{"taxonomy":"author_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_post?post=5209937"},{"taxonomy":"new_serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/new_serie?post=5209937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}