We have just read in the parsha of Shelach how twelve spies entered the Land of Israel in the time of Moses. Ten were afraid, and felt that they could not conquer the “giants” inhabiting the Land: “We were like grasshoppers in our eyes, and so we were in their eyes” (Numbers 13:33).
The parsha ends with the mitzvah of tzitzis, and says, “Do not explore after your heart and after your eyes after which you stray….”
At what should our eyes look?
Should they stare in fear at our enemies?
Should they stare at the sights of summer?
No – the Torah instructs us explicitly to look at the tzitzis. The 613 mitzvos they represent are the Shield of Abraham, which protects us against all enemies.
God has preserved us through these thousands of years of Exile because we upheld His Torah. If we stick to Him like glue, we will survive all tests and live to see the day when we return in glory as one nation, in peace and harmony to our Holy Land.
Then Torah will go forth from Zion and the Word of God from Jerusalem. The world will be happy.
“The mountains [will] skip like rams, the hills like young lambs” (Psalm 114).
God’s beloved children will return home forever. That day is upon us.