Reply To: Don’t build more galuyot.

LU, there si no Torah like the Torah of Eretz Yisrael. In fact, Chazal say that if one lives in Shmutz laAretz it is if he has no Gd and it is as if he commits idolatry (Ketubot 110b). Ramban says (Vayikra 18:25) that we only do mitzvot there in order not to forget themThe Gra says (Likutim on Sefer HaTzeniuta) that it is a graveyard for Jews. It follows that a Jew there is considered dead.

Geordie, that was because we did not have national independence. See Rambam at the beginning of Hilchot Chanuka.

CTL, are you comparing the us to Czarist Russia? If so you should leave ASAP. In any case, if you had joined the ROTC the army would have paid for your BA and law degree and then you would have become an officer with a cushy job in the Pentagon. According to your pikuach nefesh rationale it would bepermitted for a murderer to bribe a judge to avoid the death penalty. It would also have been permitted to bribe draft officials in WW2.

Winnie, do you (if you are a man) wear tzitziot?

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There are also a number of other poskim, such as Rav Kook and Rav Ovadia, who hold that it is a Torah obligation to live in EY in our time. According to Rav Shaul Yisraeli Rambam really agrees buthe does not include it as he does not include mitzvot that include other mitzvot (e.g. the mitzvot hateluyot ba’Aretz). However, because of space limitations I will not post their words.