“He [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] never tired of telling his students
that that Eretz Yisrael is the natural place for every Jew.
Only there can a Jew flourish to his maximum potential.
A Jew’s life outside of Eretz Yisrael inevitably
has a truncated, unnatural quality.
He is like a polar bear removed from his Arctic habitat and placed in the Bronx Zoo.”
“Any Jew who does not at least dream of going up to Eretz Yisrael,
he said, is surely lacking something in his Yiddishkeit.”
SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of Torah in America
(chapter 25, page 322) by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah,
year 2001 CE, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965