Q: Who is righteous and what is the meaning of the saying, “the righteous inherit the land” (Isaiah 60, 21)?
A: A righteous person is someone who has attained a spiritual degree called “righteous.” This person has attained the screen that stands and prevents all pleasures from entering and filling the will to receive. That is why the righteous can always justify the Creator.
As for “the righteous that inherit the land” – in each new degree, the righteous inherits, or “receives” new desires (desire – Ratzon – stems from the word land – Eretz) and places over them a new screen, called “receiving for the Creator.”