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<DIV>In a message dated 4/16/2012 7:21:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
llevine@stevens.edu writes:</DIV>
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size=3>>>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.<BR><BR>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
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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PTSIZE="10"><BR><STRONG>--Toby Katz<BR>=============</STRONG><BR>Romney -- good
values, good family, good
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