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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The following is from part of RSRH's commentary on Devarim 4:5.
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Note the emphasis on the fact that HaShem gave us EY so that we may observe the Torah in its entirety. YL</p>
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<div>4:5 See! I have taught you statutes and [social] ordinances as God, my God, made it my duty, so that you<br>
may act accordingly in the midst of the land to which you are coming to take possession of it.</div>
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<div>You see that I have taught you statutes and social ordinances in accordance<br>
with God’s command, so that you should observe them in the land<br>
you are about to enter.</div>
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Thus you have been presented with a fact that is important for your<br>
calling and for the significance of these laws, and that sets you and these<br>
laws apart from all other laws and nations: You are the only nation in the<br>
world that possessed laws before it possessed a land of its own. Furthermore,<br>
these laws are the only laws that are not intended as a means for<br>
building up a national existence and for achieving national independence<br>
and prosperity deriving from the national land. Rather, these laws are the<br>
sole end for which you were given all of the above. Every other nation<br>
becomes a nation through its land, and afterward it creates laws for its<br>
land. You, by contrast, became a nation through the Torah, and you received<br>
a land for [the sake of observing] the Torah.</div>
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The laws of all other nations are the product of the nation’s unique<br>
character — engendered by its land — and of the changing needs of the<br>
nation’s development. But your lawgiver, the man from whose hands you<br>
received your Law, has never even seen your land, never set foot on it. He<br>
merely transmitted to you the Law, and his grave in the wilderness is the<br>
Divine seal on the Law that he, the lawgiver, transmitted; his grave attests<br>
that this Law is eternal and immutable.</div>
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The laws of the Torah are absolute, whereas you and your land are<br>
conditional. The laws of the Torah do not change in accordance with<br>
changes in your fortunes or in the fortunes of your land. Rather, your<br>
fortunes and the fortunes of your land change in accordance with the<br>
extent to which you are faithful to the laws of the Torah. With the Torah</div>
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<div>in your arms, you now stand on the border of the land you are to enter,<br>
in order that you may there observe the Torah in its entirety. With the<br>
Torah in your arms, you will be temporarily exiled from the Land, but<br>
again and again you will stand as a nation whose whole purpose is to live<br>
for the observance of this Torah. Thus shall you await the moment when<br>
you will be able once again to enter the Land, which was given to you so<br>
that you may observe the Torah in its entirety. You are the people of the<br>
Torah, not the people of the Land; the land is the Land of the Torah, and<br>
without Torah the land is not the Land of Israel.</div>
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