According to Judaism, God promised the Jews a land on which to build his country; when Columbus discovered the New World, some Jews believed that the American continent was this promised land.
猶太信仰中，上帝答應賜下一塊土地，建立屬上帝的國，哥倫布發現新大陸時，著實令猶太人以為美洲大陸就是上帝的應許之地。