התפתחות משפט אלוהי הארץ במשנת רמב"ן: [מתוך המדור: תולדות הפרשנות]

Nachmanides’ interpretation of ‘the manner of the God of the land’ (2 Kings 17:27) is widely known. The essence of the Nachmanidean approach is that there is a fundamental connection between the Torah,the people of Israel and the Land of Israel. Considering this premise, the Ramban embraced the idea hinted in the biblical verse according to which God’s power is confined to the territory under his control; that the Tora his the divine judgment of the Land of Israel; and the observance of the mitzvot outside the promised Land is of secondary rank. The other side of this coin is the assertion that a transgression in the Land of Israel leads toa more severe divine response.The purpose of this study is to establish that the author formed thes einsights at a late stage of his life and that Nachmanides’s early writings do not share this late idea. Further, I aim to show that significant parts of Nachmanides Torah commentary actually contradict this idea.