[Avodah] Yishuv EY

[Doron Beckerman]

The Kol Bo (Simman 127) quotes the Maharam MeRotenburg:
"The primary Mitzvah of going to EY, is... only if he will be Parush from
here on, and he will be careful of all types of sins and fulfill all the
Mitzvos HaTeluyos BaAretz, for if he sins he will be punished more than if
he sinned in Chu"l, because Hashem seeks out EY constantly and the Eyes of
Hashem are upon it and he watches it alwas, and one who rebels in the palace
of the King is not the same as one who rebels outside the palace, and it is
a Land which consumes its inhabitants.. for it will spit out those who
transgress sins."

Radak (Yechezkel 33:25) - "How can you inherit the Land and do these acts
which are not in accordance with the nature of the Land, for it cannot
digest sin transgressors, as it in the Toras Kohanim at the end of Parshas
Kedoshim..."

Rashbam (Ekev 11:10) - "This Land is better than Egypt for those who keep
Mitzvos, and the worst of all the Lands for those who do not."

Shla"h (Shaar Haosiyos 56a) - "One year after I came to Yerushalayim... was
the Shemitta year... and many of those dwelling in the Land wanted to
absolve themselves, because of the great duress... and I deliberated with
myself and said, I am more obligated to keep it and even to sell the coat
off my back, for Hashem will tell me, why have you come from a place where
you are exempt to a place where you are obligated, and when you are in a
place where you are obligated you will neglect this Mitzvah? Why have you
come to defile My Land?... And then I found the same in Sefer Charedim...
that all those who come to live in EY must be very careful about Shemittah
and all the Mitzvos HaTeluyos BaAretz, just as the Amoraim were careful to
keep them as it says in the Yerushalmi, so that the Mitzvah of dwelling in
EY not come with an Aveirah of negating the Mitzvos HaTeluyos Bah, and the
loss will outweigh the gain."
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