Reply To: Ahavas Yisroel

I have just come back from a tour of the Shomron and I have to say that the young couples who have built their homes there and are toiling the land, are the most amazing and courageous people I have ever met. They have no fear except for Yiras Shamayim. At Maskiot they work the land themselves with the help of some young men that they have taken in (literally from the streets) at-risk youth who had they not welcomed with open arms would have landed in jail or worse. They learn about agriculture and prepare for the army. They refuse to hire arabs but choose to work the land and be mekadesh shem shamayim and not have any goy touch the kedusha of Eretz Yisroel. They do this without any help from the Israeli Government. These are people who were uprooted from Shiras Hayam in Gush Katif and resettled themselves on these barren lands.

The same goes for a yeshuv called Mevuot Yericho, where they also started a High School for at-risk girls and put such amazing kochos into them to heal them from their tzar and bring simcha back into their lives. Not only are they giving back to the land and the people of Israel by settling this land and guarding their borders, they also took in troubled teens and loved them like a family should.

This is true Ahavas Yisroel. Health, I think people like this can become contagious.