Halakhah su Deuteronomio 11:12

This notion of merit, as distinct from compensation for fulfillment of a divine commandment, is difficult to elucidate. Nevertheless, it would seem that the merit associated with residence in the Land of Israel is reflected in an enhanced form of divine guardianship. Providence with regard to the community of Israel is the product of a particular relationship between the individual and God. The greater the bonds linking man to God, the greater is the degree of divine guardianship manifest with regard to the individual.¹²For a fuller discussion of this concept of providence see my Providence in the Philosophy of Gersonides (New York, 1973), pp. 25-29. Or, stated somewhat differently, the greater the manifestation of the divine presence the more intense is providential guardianship.¹³This thesis is developed in detail by R. Ezekiel Landau, Noda bi-Yehudah, Mahadurah Tinyana, Oraḥ Ḥayyim, no. 150. The Land of Israel is described as the "land which the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it from the beginning of the year unto the end of the year" (Deut. 11:12), i.e., the land in which God's presence is omnipresent and most keenly manifest. Divine beneficence flows directly from the divine presence. The more intense the divine presence, the greater is the degree of providential guardianship.