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Precious stones and Pearls in Israel
"A land of wheat and barley, vine, fig and pomegranate, olive oil and honey ground"(Devarim 8,8).
The children of Israel are compared to the earth, in which precious stones are buried, which it is necessary to seek relentlessly (because they are in particular places). It is therefore necessary to dig deep into the earth, since in most sites they are not on the surface but in the depths of the ground. This is a bit like plowing ...
...if it is not necessary to invest a greater effort (and to greater effort corresponds a more important find, as it is said:«You got tired and you found»),which also provides a higher result.It will be deduced from the difference between the effort invested in plowing for the growth of plants and the effort invested in digging (mines) to find precious stones.
We must therefore use the word «Rosh Hashanah of the tree»to increase and strengthen in all aspects of the work of«the land of wheat and barley, vine, fig and pomegranate, olive oil and honey ground»,on his own person as well as on influence over others.
And that it is the Divine will that a good decision in all the above (because«G-d discerns what is in the heart»)immediately bring the wages, expressed by the verse «it is with our young and old that we will leave»,(and that we run, «borne by the clouds of heaven»)to our Holy Land, the land of israel in its fullness.Not only the land of the ten nations, but, «the land of wheat and barley, vine, fig and pomegranate, the land of the olive has oil and honey»,to eat of his fruit and to be satisfied with his goodness, and to say the blessing «on the earth and on these fruits».
To this land filled with precious stones, more precisely to Jerusalem, the holy city, on the sacred mountain, in the Temple, and in the Saints of Saints(where is the "foundation stone" on which the world is founded).
Speech of The Lubavitcher Rebbe,Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson of 15 Chevat 5752