Sunday, December 8, 2024

Even one drop of innocent blood spilled

 "The land of the Law of God exists for the sake of human beings. Its most precious product, the purpose and goal of all the blessings bestowed upon it by God is every human soul that it nurtures and thus consecrates for the realization of God's law. The land is given to all the people only under the condition that they will regard every human life, which is sacred to the Law, as sacred and inviolable. Even one drop of innocent blood spilled unnoticed will drop a stitch form the bond that binds the land to the nation and both the land and the nation to God."

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888), Numbers 35:10

Monday, December 2, 2024

No moving to Israel in Chabad

 …the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, published a piece, or had a farbrengen and they published it in which he said that Eretz Yisroel is wherever you make it. In other words, 770 is our Eretz Yisroel. And therefore, in Chabad ideology, there’s no need to go on Aliyah. If you are already living in the land of Israel, you are not supposed to leave. And it is the Holy Land, but there’s no notion of Aliyah not only obviously as an obligation but even as something that you should strive for, something beneficial because as the Lubavitcher Rebbe said, to Menachem Mendel this is our Eretz Yisroel. Wherever you make Torah, wherever you create a Torah environment that’s Eretz Yisroel.


Dr. Marc Shapiro, “Shapiro-Rav Shlomo Yosef Zevin-Part 2.mp3,” 3:04, Torah In Motion.