[Avodah] [Areivim] Is it ..Galus

[Rich, Joel]

I'm glad he used the phrase "divrei navi", because it made me think of
an interesting question that I don't know if I ever heard before.

This thread had included comments and quotes of poskim regarding whether
or not Aliyah is a chiyuv, mitzvah or reshus, d'Oraisa or d'rabanan. But
now I'm curious: What was its status in Ezra's time?

Of course, for millenia Chazal have taught us to mourn the fact that so
few Jews heeded Ezra's call to return to Eretz Yisrael. But my curiosity
is now piqued: Exactly what were they guilty of? Was it a chiyuv
d'Oraisa that they ignored? A mitzvah d'rabanan? Or maybe they simply
opted out of following one of the great Religious Zionists of all time?

Akiva Miller
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Or maybe (sometimes I'm tempted to say worst of all -with me as the
direct object) they were guilty of not doing what iirc R' Asher Weiss
often refers to as the "ratzon hatorah"

KT
Joel Rich
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