[Avodah] The 8th Day of Pesach in Golus
T613K at aol.com
T613K at aol.com
Mon Apr 16 08:21:20 PDT 2012
In a message dated 4/16/2012 7:21:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
llevine at stevens.edu writes:
>>Many years ago I asked Rabbi Dovid Kronglass, ZT"L, who was the
Mashgiach of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, about moving to Eretz Yisroel. After all, I
said, Orthodox Jews are interested in doing mitzvahs, and one can certainly do
more mitzvahs in Israel. He responded by pointing out that the mitzvahs
that one can do in Israel are only of rabbinical origin at this time.
Furthermore, he went on, one has to keep in mind the following.
The land of Israel has a special Kedushah (holiness). Therefore, if one
does a mitzvah there, one gets more reward than if one does the exact same
mitzvah here. However, if one does something wrong, G-D forbid, in Israel,
it is much worse than if one does the same wrong here. "You just don't go to
Israel," he told me. "You have to be on the right spiritual level before
you go."<<
>>>>>
Maybe his answers were tailored to his questioners, based on his insights
into the person asking the question. Most likely this answer was just for
you. It is certainly not the normative Orthodox hashkafa, for frum Jews to
/davka/ remain in chutz la'aretz and leave the running and settling of Eretz
Yisrael davka to secular Israelis and to the occasional, rare, tzaddik
gamur. As a general rule, frum yet imperfect Jews who go to E'Y, either to
learn for a few years or to live there, find that their spiritual level becomes
more and more elevated there.
--Toby Katz
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