<div dir="ltr"><span style>some words from Rabbi Greenberg - RY of Kerem BeYavneh</span><br style><span style>From Em Habanomn Semechah: Rav Sonnenfeld would scold (mochiach) someone</span><br style><span style>would speak against the chalutzim and claimed that the land would bring</span><br style>
<span style>them back to religion. The 16th of Elul is Taanait Tzaddikim because that</span><br style><span style>is when the spies died. Magan Avraham asks that we should celebrate the</span><br style><span style>death of reshaim. The Shlah answers that the spies were tzaddikim and so we</span><br style>
<span style>see that even the righteous can be spies (others explain that the spies</span><br style><span style>didn't want to go to EY because they felt that the miraculous life in the</span><br style><span style>desert was better than normal life in EY)</span><br style>
<span style>Rav Yitzchak Elchanan advocated buying of land in EY and working the land.</span><br style><span style>He writes that thank G-d that new groups appear in our nation that advance</span><br style><span style>the yishuv through working the land and young people who are want to</span><br style>
<span style>benefit from the work of their hands and it should bring our return to the</span><br style><span style>holy land that was taken from us 2000 years ago. He further writes in</span><br style><span style>another letter about the group in Kovna established to buy land and settle</span><br style>
<span style>in EY and pushes that everyone should participate.</span><br style><span style>The Admor from Pilov writes that EY is described as "eretz chemda" and so</span><br style><span style>one who leaves this out from birchat hamazon is not yotzeh. So anyone who</span><br style>
<span style>denigrates EY and doesnt realize its benefits doesnt consider it "chemds"</span><br style><span style>and is not yotze birchat hamazon.</span> <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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