Eretz HaMuvtachat – The Promised Land
This name, which has been popularly associated with Eretz Yisrael, does not appear in Tanach but is based on an oft-repeated Divine declaration.
The Creator promised the patriarchs, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, that their descendants would inherit the Land in which all three of them had dwelled. He repeated this promise to Moshe when He sent him to liberate His chosen people from Egyptian bondage and to lead them to the Promised Land.
It should be noted that in some American folk songs and spirituals the term “Promised Land” sometimes connotes the afterlife. For Jews, however, the Promised Land is the “heaven on earth” promised to our ancestors.
