The Nahmani consistently interprets the Torah as commanding the People of Israel to conquer, possess, and settle the Land. The Torah chastises Israel for not fulfilling this commandment, as we see in his version of the Book of the Commandments:
And when they did not wish to go up to the land, as it is written,“You rebelled against the word of the Lord”[Deut. 1:26]. Furthermore, you did not heed the command, which is a mitzvah and not merely a promise or assurance.
Further proof is given by the Bible ’s description of the Canaanite nations’ evacuation of the Land and the chronicle of the substitute areas they received.
The Torah ’s narrative is supplemented by rabbinic hyperbole portraying the incomparable essence of settling in this Land.
So the Gentiles fled before us and wandered off, as our Sages said: The Girgashites dislodged and went away, and God gave them a fair land, Africa. We, on the other hand, were commanded to enter Eretz Yisrael and conquer its cities and settle our people there... as our Sages taught:“Every place that the sole of your foot will tread shall be yours...”[Deut. 11:24] [T]herefore, this conquest is obligatory in every generation. I tell you that the superlatives that our Rabbis used about settling the Land reached a peak in the declaration that"anyone who lives in the Land of Israel may be considered to have a God , but whoever lives outside the Land, may be regarded as one who has no God ...” These panegyric praises are derived
135