tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606399196932045640.post7996601439800624842..comments2024-01-25T09:26:15.915-05:00Comments on Dixie Yid: A Mehalech to Succeed as an Oleh to IsraelDixieYid (يهودي جنوبي)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03713423988723533390noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606399196932045640.post-64044181779327219182008-12-14T20:16:00.000-05:002008-12-14T20:16:00.000-05:00moshe,I prefer to stay away from such statements b...moshe,<BR/><BR/>I prefer to stay away from such statements because I don't believe anyone (yes, literally anyone) knows what such things mean, aside from the Rebbe himself. Some things he explained clearly and some things he left esoteric. Certainly the Rebbe never instructed our avodah to change based on such a statement.<BR/><BR/>Al pi Torah, lchol daiyos and bchol oifen, the golus should have ended long ago. Nu, so now what?Menashehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16593117409267020021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606399196932045640.post-37434847720944509432008-12-12T04:44:00.000-05:002008-12-12T04:44:00.000-05:00Menashe: The Rebbe said that the avoda of "macht ...Menashe: The Rebbe said that the avoda of "macht du Eretz Yisroel" is finished (heard from R' Yitzchak Ginsburgh). He also said that about avodas haberurim.<BR/><BR/>Also, there's a story in the Gemara about an Amora in Bavel, who HID AWAY FROM HIS REBBI in order to go to Eretz Yisroel (as his Rebbi was opposed to such based on certain psukim).<BR/><BR/>Something to think about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606399196932045640.post-36976615672339104952008-12-12T01:50:00.000-05:002008-12-12T01:50:00.000-05:00Just a side point: the Rambam's family fled to Egy...Just a side point: the Rambam's family fled to Egypt because of the Almohad oppression. The Almohadim were one of the few Muslim sects that advocated forced conversions of Jews, and they were extremely violent. They swept through Andalusia and then North Africa, and Egypt was one of the few places in reach that was not under their authority.<BR/><BR/>Menashe, Dixie Yid posted my comment to someone else's post as a post on its own, but you have to realize that I wrote it as a response to someone who was very derisive about aliyah.<BR/>It's clear that many people have tafkidim in chutz la'aretz now--but that doesn't mean that one should lose sight of the ultimate goal.<BR/>Wanting to come is exactly about wanting to come "with Moshiach." It's not about the continuation of golus here in Eretz Yisroel, which is the current situation.<BR/>Unfortunately, I think that for many people, the teirutz that they will come when Moshiach does (when the gedolei ha'dor insist upon it, etc.) is a very kosher method of not having to live in a state of actual longing for geulah. I do not mean any kitrug, G-d forbid. It is only natural because "tocheles memusheches machalas lev"--"deferred hope breaks the heart." Who can always be longing for something that has been deferred for so long? It is not easy to really fulfill the 12th Ikar of the Rambam.<BR/><BR/>Rebbe Nachman lived in the Ukraine, but he said, "Every step I take is toward Eretz Yisroel." He obviously didn't mean that literally. He meant, like the Tzemach Tzedek said, that when one is spiritually connected with Eretz Yisroel *through longing for it*, one is said to always be "on the way" even when trekking from Minsk to Pinsk.<BR/>Men ken nisht machen "du" Eretz Yisroel b'poel ohn a shtarke benkschaft to zein b'poel "dort."<BR/>At least, this is my take on it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606399196932045640.post-73912811301503978322008-12-11T21:59:00.000-05:002008-12-11T21:59:00.000-05:00As the Tzemach Tzedek famously said to someone ask...As the Tzemach Tzedek famously said to someone asking for rshus and a brocha to make aliyah, you have to makee where you live eretz yisroel. <BR/><BR/>One of the teitches to what's said that the yidden were put in golus for no other reason than to get geirim is not only physical gerim but the nitzutzos that are hidden - avodas haberurim. Hashem hid these things throughout the world. That's also why we can't live in mitzrayim - we took all their treasures (nitzutzos) with us such that there are none left and no yid should have anything to do there today. Don't ask me about Rambam : )<BR/><BR/>Of course that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with aliyah. But it's only a lechatchila if your Rebbe sends you there; then you know it is Hashem's ratzon. You may just have an important mission to do chutz laaretz. "But I do believe that everyone should at least want to come" Yes - with moshiach! Until then I'm busy working on what the RSO sent me to do here in golus.Menashehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16593117409267020021noreply@blogger.com