Halakhah sobre Job 24:32
Shabbat HaAretz
But with the fulfillment of the whole measure of God’s rebuke (which refines not just individuals, who began to return from the early days of the exile, but also the spirit of the nation as a whole, which lifts up with it the degraded spirit of the land), the mourning for Zion began to seek outlets in action. The people that felt itself abandoned by Zion began to conceive the desire to return to its city and its land, to find there a life that would be more whole, in which the spiritual and physical could be healed simultaneously. Then the spirit began secretly to beat again, imperceptibly to most people—“Even those close to Him cannot foresee His actions.”60Job 24:1. Even if this initial growth was apparent to those with seeing hearts and holy souls, they saw it yet did not recognize its strength and substance, until they turned around and there it was—revealing itself. Those tendrils of new life that were closest to material urges were the first to show perceptible traces. The desire for land, for physical work, for social organization were not strange to the most exalted spirits of this long-suffering people that had generally forgotten the ways of physical existence and that was indebted for its material support to others.
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