Reply To: Three Oaths essay from Rabbi Avraham Rivlin of Kerem B’Yavneh

DaMoshe said said something very similar to this on
2025 August 7 at 1:20 PM in the YWN Coffee Room in a discussion titled:
“Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and the modern State of Israel”:

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Some major Rabbis held that the Three Oaths are NOT in force anymore,
including: Rabbi Chaim Vital, Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, and Rabbi Shlomo Kluger.

Even if they were in force, in 1948 CE, there were many Rabbis who held that
they were not violated, because the League of Nations and the United Nations
Organization both voted to establish a Jewish state, in 1920 CE and 1948 CE,
so the State of Israel was NOT established by force.

Also, the oath not to go to Eretz Yisrael in large numbers requires
more than half the Jews in the world —- this is the opinion of
the Shittah Mekubetzes, the Maharal, and Rabbi Yonasan Eybshitz.

The Torah Temimah held that it only refers to when people are
forced to move to Eretz Yisrael, not when they do so voluntarily.

So do not falsely claim that all Rabbis held that they are in effect,
or that Israel violated them.