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By Moving to the Land of Israel you are fulfilling a Biblical Commandment of taking Possession of the Land which is your Birthright. A Birthright promised by God Himself to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov that this would be a Land for the Jews for Eternity.

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(formerly Greenland as well, but they have since left)

Reacquisition of Eretz Yisroel our historic homeland is probably the greatest gift Hashem has given us in the last 2000 years. Rav Avigdor Miller zt”l said that the State of Israel was given to us as a test by Hashem to see how we will govern ourselves now that we finally have our own independence for the first time in so long. Will we run the country according to the laws of the torah and halacha? or Chas Veshalom turn against the Moralishkeit of the torah and institute all kinds of goyish policies/practices that come from europe?

In the beginning the founders of the State were secular zionists and anti-religious. Now as the years go by the country is becoming more and more frum and ideologically/religiously in line with the Torah.

I see this as a waiting game; before long the Medina will present itself as a Kiddush Hashem and a אור לעיני העמים (which is what we are supposed to be) as opposed to what it is today which is mostly a chilul hashem…

jackk,

–> that is the problem. we should be trying our best to FULLY SECURE our communities and not allow these arab terrorists who openly call for our death to be living next to our sons and daughters. if Moshe, Yehoshua, Gideon, Shimshon and Dovid Hamelech were running EY today they would totally not accept the current security situation.

–> obviously it must be done in a swift and responsible manner, taking into consideration the safety of all Jews living in EY and beyond. part of the problem today is that it is difficult to start because of such dangers (feedback loop) but the solution isn’t to do nothing and let the arabs continuously kill us while celebrating our deaths, it is to start to chip away as much as we can and enhance security manifold… especially in Yerushalayim where there are hundreds and thousands of arabs who hate us living in the city, and in mixed arab-jewish cities like Lod (remember the riots/pogrom from a year 1/2 ago?)

–> Yes it is obviously פקוח נפש, and we are obligated to use our brains when looking at the world and deciding such matters, it doesn’t take a genius to put two and two together. if anything one can argue that areas where Jews & Arabs live together are much more dangerous than places where they are separated by a strong barrier (even if they hate us more); Yerushalayim and the West Bank are more dangerous to Chareidim & Jewish Israelis than Gaza is. moving them all out of jewish areas to places deeper in the WB is the way to go if you want to keep the sidewalks in Israel safe and to halt this endless Arab murderous terrorism against our people. Interestingly once the IDF erected the main portion of the security wall in 2007 (the Israeli West Bank barrier or whatever they call it) 98% of terrorist attacks and suicide bombings were stopped /were prevented.

–> so either we continue to do nothing thinking that the arabs are good people while we’re always on the lookout for potential terrorists lurking behind the corners as we walk in our communities and when we send our kids to school, always moving around with hairs standing on our necks and preparing our communities for the next intifada… or we have to forcefully remove these arabs from our neighborhoods and push them further out which would probably create another Gaza-like entity in the Nablus-Jenin area – which would actually be SAFER for the average Israeli because the IDF could always monitor what goes on with drones and can bomb targets from above rather than having jews getting continuously butchered on the streets…

some would say having two Gazas to deal with (one in the northeast and one in the southwest) would be a bit of a problem – but i would prefer this any day over my fellow jews getting shot, stabbed, or run over on the sidewalk in ירושלים.

–> If we do not do these things terrorists attacks will continue to happen, and many hundreds of Jews more will mercilessly die a painful and violent death at the hands of these animal רוצחים when we could totally have done more to prevent it…

the arabs in EY are wicked dangerous bloodthirsty שונאי ישראל. the entire population must be permanently expelled as per the halachic obligation of pikuach nefesh.

דער אייבערשטער וועט אלע מאל איבערקוקן און באשיצן זיינע הייליקע קינדער

“הנה לא ינום ולא יישן שומר ישראל”

“That we are commanded to take possession of the Land which the Almighty, Blessed Be He, gave to our forefathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Yaakov; and not to abandon it to other nations, or to leave it desolate, as He said to them, “You shall dispossess the inhabitants of the Land and dwell in it, for I have given the Land to you to possess it,” and he said, further, “To Inherit the Land which I swore to your forefathers (to give them)”; behold, we are commanded with the conquest of the land in every generation.”

Chazal made many other such emphatic statements regarding this positive commandment that we are commanded to possess the Land and settle it. It is therefore an eternal positive command, obligating every single individual even during the time of Exile as is known from the Talmud in many places.

ברוך שלא עשני נטורי קרתא

YU is Off the Derech; do not go to YU.

Yeshiva University is disgusting and not Jewish.

I’m not here to tell you what Halacha says, because if you are looking for the most lenient path possible it can be found in Halacha; I’m only here to talk about what is the most Choshuv and what is the most ideal for a Frumme male of Am Yisroel:

– Longer payos are definitely preferred over shorter payos, as long as it’s not too long (like some chasidim I know), messy, or in any way can cause a Chilul Hashem when walking around outdoors or dealing with the goyim. The payos should be longer than most yeshivishe/litvishe places & chabad but shorter than what most other chasidim have. The payos are also better in front of one’s ears than tucked behind one’s ears.

– Having a beard (any length of beard) is better than having no beard at all as long as the beard makes you look like a Jew and is not some Goyishe style or something of the kind Chas V’Shalom. Having a longer beard is better than having any length of shorter beard as long as the beard is not messy and won’t cause a Chilul Hashem when walking around outside or dealing with the goyim. The best thing would be if yidden generally kept their beards untrimmed their whole lives starting from the moment the facial hair starts to grow – with only very minimal trimming here or there to keep neatness and derech eretz. Another thing is if your wife prefers a shorter beard then you should adhere to her request, but at least try to keep a beard of some sort; and of course if you have some skin condition that causes an above normal level of discomfort like red/itchy/dry skin then you should also probably keep a shorter beard.

– Regarding clothing: Longer coats that go down past the knees are better than shorter/modern ones. Wearing black coats/jackets are better than wearing blue coats/jackets. If you are to wear blue, the darker the hue the better (same goes for grey, brown, or any other colour). Shoes are better if they’re black, and shoes should also not be too shiny, pointy, or goyish. Wearing a hat of some sort is also better than wearing no hat (although the frum-looking black hats are preferred), and the hats should not be too flimsy, bendy, modern, or goyish, and the brims should not be too short.

The idea here is to dress like a frumme yid and act like a frumme yid at all times so we know our purpose and so we can constantly be ONLY a Kiddush Hashem among other jews and goyim (like not to have long and messy payos that fly into the face of other people as you walk past them) and a positive influence wherever we go.

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Again, I am talking here about what is the most IDEAL; not what Halacha says everyone must follow.

U.S. DST nationwide would be idiotic; allow for each state/town/city to select their own UTC offset as long as it is to the nearest whole hour to reduce complications (eg. -4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-9,-10…etc.)

As for Israel, they should remain on UTC+3 all year… Hashem practically placed Eretz Yisroel in this location (with the perfect latitude and longitude) for this time zone.