Judaism Is a 3,000-Year-Old Love Affair With a Land – The connection to Israel is important in understanding modern politics | TIME

Judaism Is a 3,000-Year-Old Love Affair With a Land – The connection to Israel is important in understanding modern politics | TIME

On Passover, Jews all over the world change one sentence in their daily prayers; instead of praying for rain, we begin to pray for dew. For in Israel the time for the grain harvest has begun, and if the winds blow and the rains fall, the grain cannot be harvested and will will rot in the field. Dew on the other hand, will moisten the grain without damaging it. That simple change in the prayer marks a profound truth about Judaism that touches on modern politics as well.