"Anyone who walks even as little as four cubits in the Land of Israel is assured that he or she is destined for the World to Come." Ketubot 111a

While he rode his bicycle through the Negev desert, Eric Schachar felt the sun scorching his shoulders and the warm desert wind whipping his face. "The air was so dry that my sweat evaporated immediately," he recalls, "making the temperature feel cooler than it really was." Deceived by the weather, Eric pedaled unknowingly into danger.