Every teaching of Torah has a simple meaning. And a meaning each day for every person. This one as well:

When you enter the land which the Lord your G‑d is giving you as an inheritance, take possession of it and settle it.
Then take some of the first of all the fruit of the earth which you will bring from your land, which the Lord your God is giving you.
Put them in a basket and go to the place which the Lord your G‑d will choose to have His presence dwell there.

(Deut. 26:1-2)

Here is how the Baal Shem Tov read these words from the inside-out:

Every Jew has a deep, G‑d-given, inner desire as an inheritance from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That is the land you are given, because "land" in Hebrew also means "I desire."

You may not recognize what it is that you desire. Your soul desires oneness with the Infinite Creator from which it came.

Stop running from that desire. Enter it. Embrace it. Know that what burns inside you is good.

Take ownership of that desire and channel it. Bring it into your everyday life. Give it a place to settle.

Find a basket, a container. Find many containers to hold it.

Any mitzvah that comes by.

A few words of Torah study.

A few lines of prayer from the Psalms.

Where?

In this place where you are right now, this place that G‑d has led you to.

This is the place He has chosen for His presence to dwell through you.

Hayom Yom Elul 18.