Like the prophet Yirmiyohu said in the generation of King Tzidkiyohu, which was the generation of the destruction of the Beis HaMikdosh, when the behaviour of the B’nei Yisroel was not as it should be, (although King Tzidkiyohu himself was righteous) and nevertheless the prophet Yirmiyohu found comfort in this verse when he said: זָכַׁרְּתִי לָךְ חֶסֶד נְּעוּרַׁיִךְ אַׁהֲבַׁת כְּלוּלֹתָיִךְ לֶכְּתֵךְ אַׁחֲרַׁי בַׁמִדְּבָר בְּאֶרֶץ לֹא זְּרוּעָה “I remember to you the lovingkindness of your youth, ... your following Me in the desert, in a land not sown. Imagine, The B’nei Yisroel were in the land of Mitzrayim, about which the Torah says: "The garden of HaShem is like the land of Mitzrayim," i.e. that there is nothing lacking in it, like the Garden of Eden, which has all the pleasures; In other words, it is unlike the Land of Israel where the Possuk states that it: "Absorbs water from the rains of heaven", that is, that it relies on rain, that sometimes there just isn’t rain, but as a "garden of HaShem," like the Garden of Eden, where the pleasure is constant. And within the land of Mitzrayim itself - the B’nei Yisroel were in the land of Goshen, "Meitav Ha'aretz" which is the best of the land. And from there the B’nei Yisroel went out and went to a desolate desert, "a land that is not sown," and this is a great virtue in their faith, their willingness to leave a place that has all the best to go to an empty and desolate place, that they did not say, How shall we go out into the wilderness without food, but they believed and they went to fulfil HaShem’s request straight away.
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