Why Should Jews Live in Israel - Ari Abramowitz: The Land of Israel Fellowship

thing I do know is that it's time to come home and with hashem's help I wan to I want to try to share in the time that we have right now as concisely as I can just a little bit of why I feel this way and I want to share with you the reason that despite knowing that kabad are not huge alah Advocates obviously Jeremy said that he's like what did you expect of him what did you you know he's kabat right I really did believe that ranus fredman was going to respond yes of course every Jew should make Aliah right now I really thought he was going to do that so the I mean the main reason is just intuitive right sometimes I feel like what we Jews can get so lost in our mental gymnastics around an issue that we can you know as they say lose the forest and the trees right we get so lost in the Hal question of Jewish law whether it's a Mitzvah to live in the land of Israel spoiler alert it absolutely is but the point is that we can get so lost in whether we need to live in Israel that we don't take a moment to ask ourselves whether we should live in Israel is it the right thing to do does Hashem want us to be in Israel is it something that we should at the very least want to do should we yearn to be living in the land of Israel I mean for thousands of years we've been praying please in your abundant Mercy please return us to your Holy City Jerusalem three times a day we're praying this and hundreds of others like it and I believe me I've cut out a lot from what I wanted to bring up in this Fellowship right now because there's just so much that's what it's all about that's what the whole Jewish dreams and aspirations are about we're constantly praying throughout the day for it and now all it takes is to call it nefes Benes sign up for Aliah get a free ticket on L and you're here right I'm not trying to minimize the difficulty I just spent much of Shabbat talking with this Sweet Holy Jew married three kids and he wants to make alah but he's just not ready to do it you know we spoke for hours and I really do understand him there's so many challenges and I saw the I really saw the fear in his eyes the kids and their schools and their acclamation giving up on his job and not knowing whether there's going to be another job in Israel take its place language parents family there is so much right it's giving up a life of of perceived security for one of fear and doubt and just question marks the whole thing is one big question mark uh I get it but but there comes a time when you have no choice that you have to do what you have to do and the point I'm trying to make is that in all of Jewish history it's never been so easy to actually make the move you know at least for the time being and I can't help it to think I may have mentioned this before that what happened with Corona when the gates shut to Israel and Jews couldn't go to Israel for months if they wanted to that that may have been some sort of preview warning that that can happen like that at the drop of a hat you know and right now it's so easy and it may overnight become so hard even impossible I mean people used to die on their Journey to the land of Israel Jeremy's father uh grandfather Jeremy's grandfather walked from bisak Russia to Israel and now all we have to do is show up a few hours early to the airport and we're not doing it I was actually just sent this a new commercial put out by L Israel's National Airline L check this out so they're on their post Army trip probably Thailand or India or whatever and they get notifications on their cell phone about the war and so they get on the bus and they get on the first flight back to Israel which is probably Al because when other airlines stop Flying to Israel L is the last one that keeps them [Music] going [Music] I have to be honest when I first saw that commercial for LL I actually cried a little bit and I was like that is ridiculous I'm watching a commercial for an airline as if I've ever watched like a Delta commercial and it's like I don't know and I'm watching how they like you know they're like in in Thailand on a vacation and they hear what's happening and they all just rush home and they join the Army and like it's like the story of the Jewish people through our Jewish Airline ll in an airline commercial made me cry a little bit