[Avodah] Eretz Yisroel, Zionism, and Medinas Yisroel in the Philosophy of RSRH

[Zev Sero]

On 14/06/18 18:07, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:47:54AM -0400, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> : Many years ago I asked Rabbi Dovid Kronglass, ZT"L, who was the
> : Mashgiach of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel for many years, about moving to
> : Eretz Yisroel...
> 
> : 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 commits the same wrong deed
> : here. "You just don't go to Israel," he told me. "You have to be on the
> : right spiritual level before you go."
> 
> This idea is also in Vayo'el Moshe.

It's much earlier than that.  It's a Tosfos (Rabbenu Chaim, quoted in 
Tosfos, Kesubos 110b, sv Hu Omer).

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