Why Does the Torah Command Us to Plant Even When We Enter a Land Already Full of Good Things?
Why should we keep building and planting when we have already inherited the fruits of other people’s work?
This Hagut Yosef essay reads the Torah’s command to plant as a lesson in responsibility across generations. Receiving a world already filled with good does not exempt us from adding to it; the source links planting, work, and ordinary material life with the task of bringing spiritual purpose into everyday activity.