“for the first time in two years i disagree with joseph.”
I do allow, in my graciousness, one disagreement per year, per person. So Feivel, you’re still good, and still even have one extra-credit carried over from last year when you never disagreed with me. 🙂 But in all seriousness, I do appreciate your strong vote of confidence.
My question above, indeed was too strong, and I made an incorrect point that there is never a benefit. In fact it is beneficial for the right girls, as you well said Eretz Yisroel is inherently kodosh right in the very air that is breathed in the holy land.
My concern is, as myshadow and others above have pointed out, the inherent dangers for the wrong person to be sent there without the proper supervision. Too many go there, it seems to me, for fun and games and not for the kedusha. This can, and is, detrimental to the neshomo. Additionally, (and the financial cost of going is a factor) the benefit going to EY is usually far greater spiritually for boys (that it is appropriate for) that go to learn Torah in EY, than for girls. This point I’ve heard from those far greater than I, and is not my own chiddush.