Reply To: Is Israel part of galus?

Uknow,

Gut voch,

I’ll answer your last part first

“Also, can you explain your בלעם line?
Not sure I was זוכה to understand”

Billam said he was יודע דעת עליון (he knew what Hashem was thinking) so I don’t know what is correct

And this is how I’m answering your first question

All I know is what my rebbe tells me and both my Rosh hayeshiva and the Rav of my shul left eretz yisrael and live in the states so it doesn’t seem like there’s a חיוב to move to Israel, and just like there are countless gedolim that live in the states