A Beautiful Analogy: Israel as the Bashert

I just read wonderful blog post on Tzipiyah by contributor Ashira. The post compares living in Israel to finding your bashert, or soul mate. Here is an excerpt from the article. Please point your browser to Tzipiyah to read the entire post:

As we all know, everyone has a bashert, as it says that forty days before a child’s birth it’s “soul mate’s” name is announced in heaven. This person has the other half of our neshamas, they complete us and compliment us, they support us, and the love that we have for them is incomparable to any other. However, it’s possible to get
married to someone who isn’t your actual bashert. You may love and be in love
with them, live happily ever after with them, raise a wonderful family..and
never know they weren’t the bashert assigned for you back in heaven. Had you
been with your true bashert, things may have been that smidgen more amazing,
that drop more incredible. But you had no way of knowing any of this, and as the
saying goes, “ignorance is bliss”; you are perfectly content where you are,
thinking that this is as good as it gets.

And that’s perfectly okay.

As I told my parents, though, Israel is my true bashert. Sure, I could
stay in North America and be content, comfortable. Realistically, the life there
is harder; it’s a struggle and it’s not so easy. But isn’t that the deal with
any solid relationship? You may fight, but real love overcomes it. True
connection overrules anything and everything else. So if I’m blessed enough to
know who my real bashert is, why would I marry some shmendrick who’s just
okay?