Reply To: Anti-Zionists Criticized in Matzav Inbox

HaKatan said:

“There is zero source for Zionism in the Torah, as mentioned.”

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MY RESPONSE:

Babylonian Talmud, tractate Ketubot, page 110B:

“Our Rabbis taught:

A man should always reside in the Land of Israel,
even in a city whose majority is idol-worshippers,
and do not dwell outside the Land of Israel,
even in a city whose majority is Jewish,
because those who dwell in the land of Israel
are as if they have a G*D; and those who
dwell outside the land are as if they have no G*D.”

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Rabbi Yerachmiel of Kozhnitz:

“Thank G_D, I am not jealous of a single soul,
except those Jews who have been able to go to Eretz Yisrael.”

NOTE: Rabbi Yerachmiel of Kozhnitz was the 6th Kozhnitzer Rebbe, who died 13 Elul 1909 CE.

SOURCE: Something to Say (page 98) by Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, year 1998 CE

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Hakhel Community Awareness Bulletin for Erev Tisha BeAv 2006:

“We have been in exile far too long,
and the longer we are here, he worse off we are.

Exile does not get better with age like a fine wine;
it becomes rancid like a container of open milk on a hot summer day.”

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Rabbi Shmuel Dishon (speaking at a Hakhel lecture):

The greatest Chillul HaShem in the world today is that we are still in exile.

SOURCE: 5768 Av 5 Hakhel Email Community Awareness Bulletin 2008/08/06