YDN

The Meshugas of America is the that we feel we belong here. It is a result of cultural assimilation. Our freedoms and comforts here make us feel we belong here and allow us to say things like sending our children to Eretz Yisrael is Meshugaas. It is the best way to instill our children with the value of Eretz Yisrael which we must keep in order to be plugged into the Torah. So long as we cling to Chutz Laaretz with our hearts we are clinging to the Tumah which is here as well. Maybe it wouldn’t be so necessary to send our children to Eretz Yisrael if they were brought up feeling they don’t belong in the strange land they currently are in. But since quite frankly our chinnuch stinks and those who put a dagesh on Eretz Hakodesh are branded as Tzionim and our children grow up subconsciously associating Artzeinu Hanechemedes with poverty and big yeshivah and seminary bills and chilonim and every other Yetzer Harah which can make us feel that America or anywhere else is a better place to be, we must therefore send them to our beautiful land and give them a real taam of Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh, Tzfat, Tverya… I hate the fact that I live in America. Not because I hate America. I don’t, America is nice and comfortable. I love Eretz Yisrael. And if my kid wants to go to eretz yisrael, so long and as he/she will not be fooling around rachmana litzlan, I will do what I can to send them there. But if I cannot, I will cry with them over it. Not complain that I have to pay for it and sigh in relief when I don’t have to.