[Avodah] Maharsha - There Is No Point For Some People Come To Eretz Yisroel For Yom Tov

[Ben Waxman]

Reb Weinstock was saying that the Torah could have simply said that on Yom 
Tov, people should stay home and take care of their local needy. Yet the 
Torah "went out of its way" to tell us that we are to go to a certain place. 
Therefore aliya leregel has to be something more than helping poor people.

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Prof. Levine" <llevine at stevens.edu>


> At 11:31 AM 4/6/2011, Dov Weinstock wrote:
>>There seems to be a problem with this line of reasoning - why not
>>just have a mitzva to share with your local poor/ger/levi? There
>>does seem to be some importance attached to a central place and
>>maintaining a connection to it (in addition to the primary
>>importance of sharing). Dov Weinstock
>
> I must say that I do not understand what you are saying.
>