Yam Hamelach symbolizes the physical transformation of the land in accordance with the spiritual state of the people.
Mark Twain describes the destruction of the land (exactly in accordance with the prophecy in Parshat Haazinu: “The foreigner who will come from a far country”) as a punishment for leaving the covenant.
And we will see how the prophets describe the redemption of the land in the future : the desert will bloom and the Dead Sea will become the Garden of Eden, and the entire area of the Dead Sea will be filled with water flowing from Jerusalem!
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