Chasidut su Numeri 34:3

In the Torah, the direction south was the right side since the individual would stand facing the east.³⁸⁰According to the Midrash, Adam was created with his face to the east. There are several Torah sources that prove the importance of the east. In Biblical Hebrew, kedem, the word for “beginning,” also means, “east,” and the direction panim, “faceward,” is “east,” while achor, “behind,” is “west” (Heard from the Stitchiner Rebbe). See further Rashi on Exod. 19:2 s.v. neged ha-har. Thus Abraham, who personified chesed, is frequently found traveling to the south for he was attracted to a place that had the spiritual force of giving.³⁸¹Heard from the Stitchiner Rebbe. See further Pri Tzaddik of Rabbi Tzadok Ha-Cohen, Parashas Pinchas, Lesson 8. Colloquially, the south is usually a place of greater warmth, and chesed is associated with warmth.³⁸²Heard from the Stitchiner Rebbe. The north represents gevurah, harsh withdrawal. Cold weather is found in the north. When the Torah delineated the borders of the Land of Israel it began with the south, for in the Jewish perspective, kindness is primary and paramount (see Num. 34:3).³⁸³Heard from the Stitchiner Rebbe. See further Rav Wolfson in Tzion Ve-Arehah pgs. 145-149. He provides an alternative explanation for the borders of Israel beginning with the south. When waving the four species during Sukkos, a Jew first waves to the south, the right, and then to the north, as a further manifestation of this norm.