Anti semitism poem

If there’s ever an ostrich syndrome…you claim to not know why there’s abyi semitism…we have very clear mesorah as to why – read the poem! It’s all about that

AAQ – I’m not arguing philosophy like people did years ago, I’m answering the assertion that i am doing something wrong by living in America during galus. I’ve lived in eretz yisroel, and yes, the situation of jews living there has radically changed in the past few decades. I’ve lived in eretz yisroel and the Torah community is flourishing. I can even respect the adherence to mitzvos of the religious zionist community, lacking and incomplete as it may be.

That doesn’t mean the dangers of zionism are defeated just because its progenitors are dead. it doesn’t mean that we must be negligent in protecting the same innocent and uneducated populations that you mentioned; we must stop the government from making Hebrew Nationals out of them and instead show them the light of Torah, whether or not the powers that be are guilty or just raised wrong, or if those powers wear fabric on their head or not bears little weight on the tactics and necessity of saving the disenfranchised populations from zionist assimilation

Having frum jews in eretz yisroel was never contentious; actually, the only opposition came from those who were worried that if frummer yidden settled there, it would strengthen the zionists or that they may be influenced by them. The gedolei yisroel did not agree with that position by and large, and places like komemius and kibutz chofetz chaim, along with the yishuv hayashan testify yo the purity of their motivation.

There’s a reason why half of the amoraim were not moser nefesh to come to eretz yisroel, nor were most rishonim or achronim. Every tzadik has mitzvos that they are more tied to and that they are moser nefesh for. The gedolei yisroel throughout the generations have NOT championed moving to eretz yisroel for everyone, or even for most people. The gaon sent his prized talmidim to go; he also encouraged rav chaim volozhiner to stay. Eretz yisroel is part of a cheshbon in overall avodah for many tzadikim, but it wasn’t as if they all were itching to go but couldn’t for practical reasons. The baalei tosfos were just fine where they were, as were the chasidei ashkenaz, sefardim and taimonim who never expressed much interest to go even at the behest of Ezra (this was a mistake on their part). There were no laws barring jews from living in EY at any of those times. Immigration quotas only started under the British.

Many, probably the majority of the rishonim hold that there’s no chiyuv; rabbeinu chananel holds there’s no mitzvah at all bizman galus. I think i have a few hundred mitzvos to worry about that are full chiyuvim before i start thinking about yishuv eretz yisroel. Some also hold that the main mitzvah is owning land thereby extricating goyim from it, that’s shitas harivash.

As far as kedushas haaretz, that’s a reason not to go. What we do wrong in chutz”l will be judged harsher in EY. That’s been a fear of many tzadikim. There are tons of mekoros about this in vayoel noshe; I used to know a ton more about this issue in my bochurisher years, when in yeshiva I was “the hashkafa guy”.