Reply To: Moving to Israel Because it's Safer There?

Home › Forums › Eretz Yisroel › Moving to Israel Because it's Safer There? › Reply To: Moving to Israel Because it's Safer There?

August 25, 2011 1:55 pm at 1:55 pm #869596
Raphael Kaufman
Member

Acording to some Rishonim (the RAMBAM, for instance) not only is the mitzva of yishuv eretz Yisroel chal b’zeman hazeh, but also the mitzva of kibush Eretz Yisroel.

P.S. The majority of Jews have lived in Chutz L’Aretz since Galus Bavel.