<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(44,47,52);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue","Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Notes to a magid shiur -Thoughts?</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;list-style:none;border:0px;outline:none;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(44,47,52);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue","Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,47,52);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue","Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">I certainly agree with you that the advice that it’s time to be selfish is pretty poor advice, especially in times where there seems to be no lack of individual selfishness, even within our community. In that context, it’s probably worth thinking about the message to Jews in the United States concerning the balance between being the best eved hashem they can be and yishuv eretz yisrael. My observation is that this may be interpreted as a ptur from seriously considering aliyah rather than as an invitation to understand how the two might integrate (and actually result in a higher level of avdut)</span><div><span style="color:rgb(44,47,52);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue","Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">KT<br>Joel Rich</span></div></div>