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PBA:

I have already conceded far more than you asked for: in response to your earlier quotes, such as the one mentioning “chiba”, I noted that it would be understandable if one were to feel joy at the ability to better observe mitzvos, etc. provided that it were better for his particular avodas Hashem to be there.

Regarding your line, “Yeah, also that there’s a mitzva to…and all that. Is shaking a lulav for those whose avodas Hashem will be bettered by it? ” This is not only “mean” and mocking, but absurd as well.

As mentioned, living in E”Y in these times is, at most, an optional mitzva. Again, even Rabbi Schachter from YU states in that Israeli Independence Day lecture from this past year, that if a person’s ruchnius, children’s chinuch, etc. would suffer from going to live in E”Y, then the person should stay in America and NOT move to E”Y.

Lulav, of course, has no such issues. Neither do Shabbos or Tefillin for that matter. Yet, as I pointed out, nobody has claimed that their school has a “learn to love tefillin” program. So your mocking comparison to lulav seems to simply be for the sake of being mean and mocking, not for any good reason that I can deduce.