07. Birchas HaShachar: Roka HaAretz Al HaMayim Wednesday 21 Shvat 5774/ Jan. 22 2014. The simple idea being celebrated here is the fact that 1) We walk on dry land and 2) That Hashem caused the land to be raised above the water though naturally the entire surface of the earth should be covered in water. We explored this a little deeper discovering various more mystical insights. The GR”A holds, that the earth is Malchus that covers over ‘Mayim’ in creation. The Arizal, that the earth is ‘The Dmus’ (Adam HaElyon) that exists (by covering) over the ‘(5) waters’. The Pardes, that included in this Bracha is both a thank you and a pledge to see through the purpose for which the land was raised above the water: to reunify the land with the water. The Tolaas Yaakov, the land is the ‘Eretz HaChayim’ (reward) which is the reason the lower waters were separated in the first place. Chassidus, that explains that this is about ‘Dira BiTachtonim’.
