“……Gaon and those admorim make a minyan when they go to Switzerland. Do they go to Peru to see machu pichu or to Greece to see the clear blue waters of those beaches?…..”
And if they did, what would be wrong with that? Somehow , I’m sure they’d get their minyan there… Who pays anyway???
“…..The natural wonders excuse is a cover up for bad intentions, by many lay jews….”.
Boom…!!! Kindly explain “bad intentions.”
Rav Shamshon R. Hirsch, on the verse “Kol Hashem Behadar”:
The voice of Hashem is IN beauty, BE’hadar……. Whatever and wherever a person sees and finds beauty in this world, be it an idea, a dvar Torah, a flower, art. music, waters of Greece, geysers, Mach Picchu and hippos,…. Hashem’s voice speaks through it .
So, was the intention of your thread to bash Yidden and their bad intentions?