Love of the Land - Rechovot
  Selections from classical Torah sources which express the special relationship between the People of Israel and Eretz Yisrael RECHOVOT "They dug another well and did not quarrel over it, so he (Yitzchak) called it Rechovot (expanses) and he said: 'For now Hashem has made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land.'" (Bereishis 26:22) After bitter disputes with the Philistines over the right to two wells Yitzchak's shepherds had dug, the third well is named Rechovot (expanses) to signify that this one was not contested. The great Biblical commentaries, Nachmanides and Sforno, interpret the first two wells as symbols of the first two Temples, whose histories were marred by internal and external strife, while the third well represents the Third Temple which will be blessed with universal peace.
The name and its significance was adopted by Polish
settlers in 1890 for the settlement which they established, and
which has developed into one of Israel's major cities, Rechovot.
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