Reply To: Don’t build more galuyot.

Yekke, on the other hand it is not in churban (see Mishna Berura 561:2). There are many stages to geula (Yerushalmi Berachot 1:1). However, a Jew who lives in EY is living in his land. By definition, he is not living in exile.

Iacisrmma,

They are calling for Jews to come and build those communities. In other words, they want to build the land of gentiles rather than our own land (see Chatam Sofer, Succah 36a that Hashem increases destruction in proportion to this).

Rav Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal says in Em HaBanim Semeicha that this love of galut caused the Holocaust.

Rav Meir Simcha says (Meshech Chochma, parashat Bechukotai) ““If the Jew thinks that Berlin is Jerusalem … then a raging storm wind will uproot him by his trunk and subject him before a faraway gentile nation… a tempest will arise and spread its roaring waves, and swallow, and destroy, and flood forth without pity. Therefore, you will not be calm, nor shall there be a resting place for the sole of your foot is a blessing, for as long as the Jewish People are uncomfortable in exile, they will yearn to return to their homeland.”

The Shela Hakadosh, writes (at the end of Masechet Sukkah): “I will disclose something that has always troubled me greatly. I have seen Jews building homes like the fortresses of princes, making themselves permanent, this worldly dwellings in impure lands. (I have observed that) it is their intention to leave these homes as an inheritance to their children after them! This appears to be, G-d forbid, an abandonment of the idea of Geula. Therefore,even if G-d gives you wealth, build simple houses, to accommodate your bare needs, and no more.”