Musar for Taanit 19:1

בברייתו של עולם

Our Rabbis have taught: Palestine was created first and then the rest of the world, as it is said, While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. VIII, 26. .rt ktrah .rt ,umuj .uj .rtk .uj');">¹</span> Palestine is watered by the Holy One, blessed be He, and the rest of the world is watered by a messenger, as it is said, Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Job V, 10. taken to mean Palestine, and from (outside, field) the rest of the world () .');">²</span> Palestine is watered by the rain and the rest of the world is watered by the residue,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [MS.M. adds, of Palestine.]');">³</span>

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