Preventing the "Angry Heart"

You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an angry heart (lev ragaz), failing eyes, and a despondent spirit.                                                                       Deuteronomy 28:65

“There the Lord will give you an angry heart” – this refers to Babylonia.  Babylonian Talmud, Nedarim 22a

            Based upon the Talmudic statement, Panim Yafot writes [in his comments on Genesis 37:13]:

“There the Lord will give you an angry heart,” but not in the Land of Israel, for the Land’s sanctity prevents anger.

            Further, Panim Yafot comments [Leviticus 26:6] that our Sages taught that one who expresses anger drives away the Shechina.

            Combining the two comments of Panim Yafot, we may suggest that being within the Land of the Shechina prevents driving away the Shechina, and thus prevents anger.

            Indeed, in his comments on Numbers 35:28, Panim Yafot explains that the factor which prevents experiencing the angry heart within the Land is the proximity to the Shechina:

The closer one is to God’s Temple, where true unity is found, the more the angry heart is reduced; thus the verse refers to Jerusalem as “a city united” [Psalms 122:3], for there all Israel are united.