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I read recently that Israel now has the largest Jewish population in the world – it finally passed the US. At some point down the road, I’d think that Israel would have the majority of Jews in the world living there.
I know that there are halachos that apply only if the majority of Jews in the world live in Eretz Yisrael, but I don’t know offhand what they are. Can people list some of them?
Majority? How do you count? The children of intermarriage where the mother is Jewish are part of the count. The lost Jews who are Jewish but don’t know they are Jewish, since over the past 2000 years they were kidnapped or otherwise lost are Jewish, including all their maternal descendants until today.
just because Israel passed the US it doesn’t mean they have over half considering there is probably some other million Jews living outside the two of them. even if most live in Israel you have to take out all the jews in southern israel because it is not hallachically part of E”Y (kibush yachid shmei kibush? i believe we dont hold like that)
You have to agree what those Halachos are . Sefard, Ashkezaz, Edudut HaMizrath etc
Maybe it would be time ripe for re-establishment of government by local bais din and Sanhedrin. It would be harder to evade the responsibility of bringing Korban Pesach. What to do with challa becomes more urgent. Clarifying some things in Yehexkel would be proper.
Trumos and Maasros become D’oraisa. (Well, according to R’ Chaim Brisker they might still not because you need to do a Ma’aseh Chazakah but R’ Chaim Kanievsky in Derech Emunah explains that it would still be D’Oraisa anyway.)
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