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Land

The Kabbalistic meaning of the term, “land” is “desire.” The wisdom of Kabbalah explains that the entire Torah always refers to a single person and the states that he or she will experience. For example, in the verse, “Get thee out of thy country… unto the land that I will show thee” (Genesis 12:1), the Creator tells Abraham to get out of his “land,” out of the egoistic desires he knows he was born with, and go unto the altruistic desires that He, the Creator would show him.