We continue in Pesukei Bitachon starting with the letter Vav , Melachim א 5,5 discussing the era of Shlomo Hamelech: וַיֵּ֩שֶׁב֩ יְהוּדָ֨ה וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל לָבֶ֗טַח אִ֣ישׁ תַּ֤חַת גַּפְנוֹ֙ וְתַ֣חַת תְּאֵנָת֔וֹ מִדָּ֖ן וְעַד־בְּאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֥י שְׁלֹמֹֽה׃ (The Jewish people) Yehuda and Yisrael dwelled in security , a man under his grapevine and under his fig tree. We have previously discussed the other-worldly level of tranquility that comes to a person through bitachon. We said that you really need to be in Olam Haba / the world to come without interferences, evil, or death, in order to have that level of tranquility, which is Olam Haba on Gan Eden, and this is why we're always yearning for tranquility. God put that into us in order to endear to us the ultimate tranquility of the future. However, there were times in history that we reached that, such as the time of Shlomo Hamelech. That was the ultimate era of shalom , where even in this world, everyone reached that future level of each one sitting under their grapevine, or fig tree. This is the term used in the sefer Beer Mayim Chaim on Yitro (perek י״ח ) where he says, “In the time of Shlomo Hamelech, due to the building the Bet Hamikdash, everyone sat under his grapevine and fig tree, me’en Olam Haba. Shlomo Hamelech’s era was an era similar to Olam Haba. The Chida , in his sefer Chomach Anach, points out that it says, וַיֵּ֩שֶׁב֩ יְהוּדָ֨ה וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל when they dwelled Israel, in the singular form rather than plural. There are two parts of the Jewish people, Yehuda and Yisrael. But here it says vayeshev in the singular because there was peace among them. They were one and that's why they had this peace in serenity. We've been discussing peace a lot. The shalom of the future, the Brit shalom , the covenant of the future . And this comes about interestingly, through Shlomo Hamelech. The root of his name is shalom . Due to that shalom, the people got along. Where does that shalom come from? The Midrash Rabba in Shir Hashirim says in 1,69, that until the Bar Hamikdash was built, we were bouncing from place to place. Once the Bet Hamikdash was built, the Bet Hamikdash allowed us to sit in peace and therefore to have this security and tranquility. There are a few more nuances to, “Each man under his grapevine and under his fig tree. ” Rashi discusses this in Devarim , 33,28 where it says the Jewish people in the blessing of Moshe Rabbenu will be secure and alone. Normally, in order for people to feel secure, they need a lot of people together. They can't be alone because they need someone to protect them. But here it’s saying each man can sit alone under his grapevine and fig tree, because we don't need to gather together. We're not afraid of the enemy. What is so special that we single out the grapevine and the fig tree? אִ֣ישׁ תַּ֤חַת גַּפְנוֹ֙ וְתַ֣חַת תְּאֵנָת֔וֹ /Each man under his grape vine and fig tree. This is a famous term of security that shows up quite a few times in the Navi . The Arizal says, as we've mentioned the past, in order to have the perfect peace and tranquility, there has to be a situation where there's no Satan , there's no evil, like in Shlomo Hamelech’s times. He says, we use these two trees because the opinion in Chazal is that these were possibly the tree of the Etz HaDaat , where Adam and Chava sinned. Either the grape vine, because it says all woe comes to the world through wine, or the fig tree, because it says Adam and Chava covered themselves with fig leaves from the tree that they sinned with. And in that era, where the contamination left the world, we'll be able to go back to that Etz HaDaat in the proper way without any evil. We will have the ultimate Gan Eden from before Adam HaRishon. That's what we're trying to get to. And the truth is, as we’ve said, we can get to it in this world. We say to every chatan and kallah , “ These beloved friends should be happy like God made you happy in Gan Eden of old.” We bless every couple that th