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Rabbi Meir Kahane – The Mitzvah to Live in Israel
The Mitzvah to Live in Eretz Yisrael, Part One From the Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane With the danger of the Coronavirus still spreading throughout the world, the violent riots in America, and the increasing, global anti-Semitism, many Jews are considering making...
Go, and Know by Yael Leibowitz
Go, and know…When the world has grown small, and yet family feels farther away than ever, here's a moment to pause, with a sense of pride, and an awareness of destiny (Lech Lecha)GoFrom your native landFrom your father’s homeTo the Land that I will show youGoFrom your...
Lech Lecha – Get Thee Forth to America!
LECH LECHA – GET THEE FORTH TO AMERICA! Isn’t it interesting that the very first words that G-d says to Avraham, the father of the Jewish People, is to go to the Land of Israel? What are we supposed to learn from this? Can there be any question at all? One plus one is...
And It Will Be When You Come To the Land
Adapted from teachings of Rabbis Avraham Greenbaum, Pinchas Winston , and Moshe Lichtman Photo credit: Ben GoldsteinThe commandments contained in Ki Tavo are almost the last commandments in the Torah. They relate to the longed for, glorious completion of the journey...
Leaving the Land of Israel
Leaving the Land of Israel One way of understanding the vital importance of Eretz Yisrael to Jewish life is through the prohibition to leave it. When a Jew leaves the Land of Israel, it is as if he or she is turning their backs on the Shechinah and the Holy One...
The Great Call
The Great Call “To the Land of Israel, Gentlemen, To the Land of Israel! Let us utter this appeal in one voice, in a great and never-ending cry!” This isn’t me. It’s Rabbi Kook. He wrote this open letter, which he named, “The Great Call,” to world Jewry in 1907 when...
The Cherished Land, by Rabbi Shmuel Eliahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfat
The Cherished Land In his weekly, televised class on the Parsha, HaRav Shmuel Eliahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfat, emphasized the importance of declaring the praises of Eretz Yisrael in rectifying the sin of the Spies who spoke disparagingly about the Cherished Land, a...
Medinat Yisrael is a Torah Commandment
Medinat Yisrael is a Torah Commandment! The Torah states again and again and again that G-d wants the Jews to live in Israel. So how can it be that some confused Jews think the very opposite, believing they are following the Torah by living in gentile lands, and that...
Mashiach Now!
Mashiach Now! Only an infant expects his desires to be gratified immediately. He wants his bottle now! He wants his rattle now! If he doesn’t get it, he screams, he hollers, he cries. Sometimes, when a child gets to be an adult, he still wants everything handed to him...
Chocolate Chip Cookies and the Land of Israel
Believe it or not, chocolate chip cookies were one of the things that made me realize that a Jew’s true place is in Israel. When I started to learn about Judaism in Hollywood, someone told me that a Jew has to say a blessing before and after eating, in order to thank...
Chofetz Chaim on Aliyah
Chofetz Chaim on Aliyah Several times during the year, I am invited to speak to groups of yeshiva students from the Diaspora who are studying in Israel. One of the questions that I am frequently asked is, “Is it a Mitzvah to live in Israel in a time of danger?”...
Rose-Colored Glasses
Rose-Colored Glasses Shabbat’s Torah portion begins with Moshe begging God to let him enter the Land of Israel. “Please let me pass over there and see the good Land on the other side of the Jordan, this good mountain and the Lebanon” (Devarim, 3:23). As a rule, the...
One Day Soon
One Day Soon They’ll Come Home As Tisha B’Av approaches, I confess that my essays often chastise Jews who prefer to live in the Gentile lands of the Diaspora, just like the Spies in the Wilderness who refused to accept the oft-repeated commandment to make Aliyah. I am...
The True Torah
THE TRUE TORAH What can you do? Some people simply love to disagree. It doesn’t matter what I write, they’ll insist the opposite. If I say the sky is blue, they’ll reply that it isn’t really blue – it’s a spectrum of colors that looks blue due to atmospheric...
Don’t Listen to Me – Listen to Moshe
Don’t Listen to Me – Listen to Moshe Get ready to hear the Torah explained by the greatest Torah teacher of them all – Moshe Rabeinu, as we begin his review of the Torah in the Book of Devarim. In this week’s parsha, Moshe goes over the teachings of the Torah as the...