Eretz Yisroel was folded under Yaakov Avinu

The Gemara in Chulin :צא, brings the story of Yaakov Avinu and his dream of the ladder.

The Pasuk starts off with, ויפגע במקום

The Gemara explains that "במקום" is referring to Har HaMoriah, AKA Har HaBayis, and the Makom HaMikdash.

The Gemara continues & Rashi brings this in Parshas Vayetzei, that during the dream, HaShem told him,

"הארץ אשר אתה שכב עליה לך אתננה ולזרעך"

"מלמד שקיפלה הקב"ה לארץ ישראל והניחה תחת אבינו יעקב כדי שתהא נוחה להיכבש לבניו"

That HaShem folded up the whole Eretz Yisrael and put it under Yaakov Avinu so it should be easy for his children to capture.

So the question is, what does the Medrash want? The Medrash is saying that HaShem actually folded up Eretz Yisrael? Like what's the message in there? It sounds almost childish. And what does folding up Eretz Yisrael have to do with making it easier to capture?

So I heard a great pshat from Rabbi Pesach Wolicki from Israel 365,

Again, the Gemara says Yaakov Avina was sleeping on Har Habayis, on the Makom HaMikdash.

And the message is: If you're sleeping on Har HaBayis, if you have the Makom HaMikdash, if you're sovereign over there, and you own that, and you take control of that, so then the whole Eretz Yisrael is just folded up. It's just an accessory. It's just טפל to the Makom HaMikdash.

Whereas, if you don't take Har Habayit and you leave that, you're going to be fighting, and it's going to be very difficult for you to conquer the rest of Eretz Yisrael.

Nowadays, this is very relevant, because Baruch Hashem Klal Yisrael returned to Eretz Yisrael. We have Yerushalayim, Tel Aviv, Be'er Sheva, the north, the south, the east, the west, but we have not really taken over Har Habayis enough, and that's why we're suffering from all these different attacks, and fighting with the world about, you know, settlements and this and that.

The message is that if all we need to do is take over Har Habayis 100%, and like the Gemara says, once we do that, the whole Eretz Yisrael is folded up, and it's easy for us to apply sovereignty there too

Amen, Ken Yehi Ratzon.