[Avodah] The 8th Day of Pesach in Golus

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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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Romney -- good  values, good family, good  hair


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