@Lil B…I can sum up my answers with the statement “Everything happens for a reason”.
A lot of my choices that I made when I was younger, actually prepared me very well for my move.
I was in the military when I was younger, so I’m used to living in the middle east out of a backpack/suitcase…But if you make Aliyah through something like NBN, then you won’t have to do what I did.
My relatives (parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc.) is a lot different & more complex. It hurt. There is no way around it. It hurt. (Even though my relationships also are a little more complex halachically)
but i heard time and time again how its not easy to live there.
Yes, I’ve read that 10 out of 12 people said that…it must’ve been in the Shelach Times or something.
But seriously, if a person is wanting to live & raise their family according to Torah, then there is not enough GOOD things to say about Israel.
Is it “hard” to walk up & down the winding staircases in the old city? I don’t know, is it “easy” in America to find a bus that’ll take you pray at the Machpelah Cave & Kever Yishai V’Ruth for less than $7, and still be back in time for dinner?
Is it “hard” in Israel to put up with the Palestinians & they’re constant provoking behavior? I don’t know, is it “easy” in America to walk to the Kotel to daven & say Tehillim to H-shem?
When people say that living here is hard, ask why they don’t also mention about how it’s also INCREDIBLY EASY to do many ENORMOUSLY spiritual things here as well.