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<font size=3>At 08:17 AM 6/14/2018, Ben Waxman wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">1) Maybe giving them money is
helping them do something which you <br>
regularly complain about - chareidim not being able to support
themselves.<br>
2)? There are all sorts of huge mitzvot that people in chul do. That
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isn't the point.? The point is ""We must do whatever is
possible to<br>
further Mitzvot observance and prevent desecration of the Holy Land"
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what does that mean?<br>
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I am going to give you an answer that I know you will not like and will
dismiss out of hand, but IMO, it is the truth.<br><br>
<font size=3>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. 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 additional 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 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."<br><br>
While reciting the Shema twice a day we say, “Beware lest your heart be
seduced and you turn astray… And you will swiftly be banished from the
goodly land which G-d gives you.”<br><br>
Thus it is clear to me that one must be on the appropriate spiritual
level to live in Eretz Yisroel. Encouraging those who are not on this
level to settle in Eretz Yisroel was and is perhaps a mistake. This is a
radical statement, and many will react strongly to it. However, is it
possible that part of the reason for what is going on in Israel today is
a result of the fact that the vast majority of Jews living in Israel are
not properly observant, and the statement quoted in Shema is being, G-d
forbid, fulfilled?<br><br>
I am not the one to judge anyone else, but each person should look in the
mirror and ask themselves if they are sure that they are
spiritually elevated enough to live in Eretz Yisroel. As Reb Dovid said,
"You just don't go to Israel."<br><br>
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