[Avodah] yishuv EY

[Mike Miller]

On 5/30/07, SBA <sba at sba2.com> wrote:
>> While of course neither denies the importance of
>> mitzvot in building EY both express their hakorat hatov to those
>> that actually built the land with their physical labor
>
> I can understand that.
> And so, no doubt we should have similar hakoras hatov for today's
> physical laborers, eg, Arabs, Thais and Romanians etc, who continue
>  to build the land for us - decades after the chilonim have given up
> on this hard slog.

You are correct. However, the overwhelming majority of the foreign
workers who are building up much of modern EY are doing so for pay.
The original chilonim, like the original RZ, came out of a spirit of
wanting to work, of wanting to build.

-- Mike Miller
Ramat Bet Shemesh