The boundary at the entrance to the degree called the “land of Israel” is called Hanukkah because we correct ourselves to a state in which we can begin to work with our desire. Desire is Ratzon, from the word “Eretz” (land); “Israel” means directed straight to the Creator.

The passage through the desert is an approach to Hanukkah. After the victory over the Greeks within us, the entry into the land of Israel begins. Therefore Hanukkah personifies the boundary between the desert and the land of Israel.

In other words, Hanukkah is the correction of egoism to the degree of an “incomplete righteous one,” when the ego simply freezes and does not interfere with us. We are, as it were, suspended in the air; below is egoism, above is altruism, absolute love, and in the middle is the spiritual quality of Bina that we have acquired, which holds us.

Therefore it is explained to us what must be done next because the work in the land of Israel is absolutely not the same as in the desert.

In the desert we had to simply rise above egoistic desires, which over the course of 40 years (40 degrees) manifested in us every day; that is, Malchut had to rise into Bina. And now, from Bina, we must rise to Keter. This is already the work in the land of Israel.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 12/21/16

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