Should All Jews Make Aliyah to Israel Now?

Why Do We Call Israel Our Homeland When Were Living Outside of It?
The "My Israel Narrative Podcast" Interviews Rabbi YY Jacobson about the Hamas-Israel War on Dec 25, 2023, 13 Teves, 5784
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[@margo_noahide]

May HaShem bless and keep all the Jewish people safe. You are love and supported by some. ❤❤❤❤💕

[@julieheudebourck]

I pray for the Jewish people in Israel since October 7th, I now realise I should be praying for all the Jews throughout the World. May God bless you all and keep you all safe we live in a fallen world and I hope the good Lord send you much love.

[@rebeccaaharon776]

Since October 7th I have felt HaShem pulling me towards Israel, more than at any other time. And I am in the process of making Aliyah and am looking forward to a new life in the holy land

[@phillipgrey]

Welcome home.

[@Eliana3173]

You are listening to that voice from G-d Himself. Hold on to your faith and stay close to Hashem. He will be with you and you will overcome all obstacles or difficulties. Not only that! You will already be in Israel when the redemption happens! It won't be long!

[@deannang455]

Prayers for protection as you make your move.

[@elisabethm9655]

I’m in the Aliyah process now…I may have property in the US, but it is not home for me, I’ve always felt deeply alienated in this country. Once I was in Israel, I discovered a sense of home that I had never known before.

[@user-mk1et9pz7y]

So beautiful. So true.

[@camelliam.4235]

Its not going to be easy. Its a rough region and you will be living next to arabs, some of them very hostile.

[@camelliam.4235]

@@alizaize Its not just comforts, its difficult to live there. I speak fluent Hebrew & I couldn't deal with it. Its best to help different Israeli causes from overseas and only move if you have a real support system and great job.

[@GillesMeunier-co8gl]

​@@camelliam.4235money, money, money. This is the curse of the people waiting without a real reason. There is nothing to do for a jew outside besides coming back to Israel.

[@1dk869]

Come home ,I made the step , it's amazing- so much blessings unity and prosperity ❤ shabbat shalom 😊

[@kimvenezia6903]

Circumstances aside, I believe that every Jew deep in their heart knows the truthful answer to this question. ❤

[@onlyoneg-donlyonetorahonly3079]

Yes 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 absolutely,,ALL of us should make aliyah ASAP,,,this is like the times of the exodus,,when ALL of us left egypt,,,

[@naomigreenberg7450]

I made Aliyah. There is no purpose for any Jews to remain in chutz laaretz. HaShem opened up the gates in 1948. Maybe before 1948 we can say we were into forced exile , but no longer . If the Jews would return instead of investing in the infrastructure of chutz laaretz , the country , our country will become like no other. Moshiach would come , instead of saying we will come when moshiach comes. Our actions would usher in the guela. HaShem took us out of Egypt to bring us into Eretz Yisroel. Jews around the world have to start contemplating and realizing living outside of Israel is not sustainable for much longer. If we believe what HaShem told us then it’s time to build up our own country instead of the countries of the world that detest us. Come home 🌼

[@jingojingo1]

DID U STEAL A PALESTINIAN HOUSE?

[@yaccovbarak9453]

Ain't no such thing as a "Palestinian ".....fake people....no history....no currency.....nothing to be found archeology wise....created in 1964 by the KGB in Moscow .....the "Palestinians " were arabs who over the past 150 years came from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon , Jordan and the Arabian peninsula....they are Not indigenous to the land of Israel....the Jewish people have been there for over 3600 years. I prefer fact over fiction.

[@bookmouse2719]

@@jingojingo1 Did you know there is no P in Arabic.

[@jingojingo1]

@@bookmouse2719 your Jewish tricks won’t work on me. Your lies only work on weak minded, gullible people. According to your own religion, you are not supposed to have a Homeland you’re supposed to live in exile until the Messiah comes. Even if Israel was located in Africa, or somewhere in Asia still you will have the same problems. You’re not allowed to have a country. For me personally, I would love everybody to have their homeland. However, God doesn’t want you to have a Homeland. You’re forcing something that cannot be established. Naturally, Israel is an artificial state.

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

A "balestinian" stole my house. @@jingojingo1

[@AliciaSanchez-dm1dm]

Jwesh is the light of this world 🌎

[@chuck62891]

Yes they should make aliyah, now. I did two years ago and am so glad that I did.

[@Privateaccount433]

Welcome!!!! ❤❤❤

[@Jes1919]

Hey Chuck. I spoke to you a few months ago at NBN advisors. 21 year old male from South Florida.

[@geraldinehorton1410]

As a Christian, may I just say how spot on true the Rabbi is in all he says regarding us out in the world not privileged to be born Jewish, but so grateful for the blessings that God has given us through the children of Jacob. I pray constantly for Israel, for the peace of Jerusalem and for the Jewish people. Hashem bless and keep you, make His face to shine upon you and bring you peace.

[@deannang455]

Join you in prayer as a non-Jew Christian myself.

[@folkeholtz6351]

Thank you for your words. I long so much to be in Israel and particular to Jerusalem, but I am living in Stockholm, and wish to make an Aliyah, but would not make it to be true. Here in Stockholm i teach Jewish children and also spread the beautiful of Judaism to many non-Jews which is important. I strongly accept your words that we are in any case strongly connected, and I am so thankful to be part of the Jewish people. Am Jisrael Chaj.

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

The best thing would be to inculcate those children and their parents with a tangible love of Israel and you should make aliya as a community.

[@VictoriaRege]

I’m not Jewish but I live in Sweden and know people from all walks of life. /V from Sweden

[@folkeholtz6351]

What is the point? @@VictoriaRege

[@folkeholtz6351]

@@elishevabarenbaum5319 Yes but for me it is only one person.

[@VictoriaRege]

The point is that we are One People on this earth, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddist, Atheist or something else. I think it is a beautiful thing to learn from each other and care for each other as long as we walk on this earth. And you are able to be at places using your imagination. Kids in peticular. Keep teaching! Stay safe!@@folkeholtz6351

[@savtamarlene]

This was so GESHMAK…Just what my neshama needed to hear. BRAVO Rabbi JJ…you hit it out of the park again…and again.

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

Unfortunately, it is extremely misleading. All Jews should at least be yearning to live in Israel. And striving to achieve that goal, not being told, don't worry, stay in exile.

[@ayalafinn8329]

Ofcourse everyone should come home now and be part of the geula,was so hoping rabbi yy you would say that! Join us in Israel,you can be so משפיע, here and bring so many people with you,by leadership and example ❤

[@meatballjerrow]

This is a conversation that brings great self reflection that I need

[@cjf800]

A brilliant, HaShem inspired conversation of hope, reason & purpose - thank you 🙏 from Australia 🇦🇺 🇮🇱

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

The message should have been that Jews need to make community aliya, and urgently. Jewish leaders should be at the forefront of organising this.

[@arielshalem]

I think that our moral voice is strongest when it is backed by our resolve to live in the land that God chose for us to live.

[@adarnach]

Again ,,,אשרי יולדתך !,,Dearest and revered Rabbi every word coming out of your heart is reaching so far every heart not just the yiden but the few rightuous among Nations !! Such Torat Emeth you represent such authenticity!Bravo מי כעמך ישראל אשריך כמהקידוש השם כי הם חיינו ואורך ימינו ובהם יהגה יומם ולילה

[@MouseOfJesus]

Just learning about the fact that my family is Jewish and what the process of Aliyah is. Have some huge obstacles to overcome including sealed family records at the government level by my great grandfather when he was in office in Canada. I only have 9 years to get this process complete. Lots of people trying to discourage me, down to people deying my families Jewishness. I hate to leave Jerusalem during this time. I pray for our nation, Israel.

[@phillipgrey]

Welcome back home.

[@Privateaccount433]

Please do not be discouraged. I am so sorry things are the way they are. Our government is not Zionist! It hasn't been in many many years! But people are waking up to who's lying. Time will pass, use it. We cant wait to welcome you here! Sending love! ❤

[@mikahdaug9052]

❤❤

[@deannang455]

Are you connected with a Rabbi or Jewish advocacy group? A friend Dean Bye works in an immigration center in IL. Prayers and blessings for your move to Israel.

[@taliarebeccastaub]

Excellent questions and great answers. Thank you both ❤

[@aussiebushhomestead3223]

What an excellent discussion. Encouraging wisdom that has fueled my desire to go home. Todah rabah.

[@TakeMeAtMyWord]

Traveled to Israel and just got back a few days ago.....to remind Her the LORD has not not forgotten Israel....prayed for IDF soldiers as I saw them on bus and train platforms....ppl in shops, cafes, etc. Am Yisrael Chai I miss Israel deeply. I pray for the shalom of Jerusalem.

[@12Squared]

Thank you for this, Rabbi... as a gentile I struggle with my spiritual need to find a way to be called to Israel. I don't know why I have drawn strength from the Jewish model of never forgetting and also moving forward more strong and capable than I started, and I have. Always. And so for no real reason at all I wish I were younger, stronger, more capable in the ways that Israel has clear need of now... and I am not and do not and have not got the things needed today and so I just have this unfulfilled need to help and no clear idea how, yet. The 10/7 attacks catalyzed something in me and the marches and horror of the days following have been a darkness that perhaps I struggle within becuase I'm an atheist and do not have a clear strength from faith, or perhaps just because so many of the truths I held as undeniable in ANY light have been broken and denied in the broad daylight by so many people that the "faith" I did hold has been shaken and I need to learn to hold it even in the darkness as my own light. Whatever is my own truth and path... I have fear for us all. I started my post with NO... DO NOT GO HOME YET... don't make it easier for our enemies to single you out and destroy you in one blow! And then I deleted it. I'm an optimist by nature and cannot begin from a place of abject pessimism and fear. And now I am torn, because Rabbi Jacobson is right... if your calling is to strengthen from within, then you must go home... and if your calling is to strengthen from without then that is where you should remain even though that place is as dangerous to you as Joseph's place in Egypt was. And that hurts me inside because right now I don't want anything that risks any more harm to Jews anywhere in the face of so much evil and hatred. Am Yisrael Chai. Be strong. Bring the light and strength and dignity of thousands of years to your people because they are fighting for us all.

[@deannang455]

I'm a Gentile Christian and pray for Israel and find others who also.

[@W5w5345]

Thanks for sharing this video Very interesting conversation Thanks again and God Bless you guys all 🙏🙏. God Bless Israel 🇮🇱🙏🇮🇱🙏🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇸🙌🫶✌️🙌💥

[@karieanne25]

Rabbi, there is also another army that was mobilized on October 7…..there is a great army of Christians who also were mobilized on October 7, who are praying earnestly day and night for Israel, crying out for those soldiers on the front lines, for wisdom and guidance for the leaders, for the hostages in the tunnels and elsewhere. You are not alone. We are with you in fasting and crying out and in earnest prayer. God Bless You all and preserve and deliver you, set His Angels round about you. Psalm 91. Amen🙏

[@rachelweinstein9008]

Amen

[@stefansollberger5658]

ridiculous

[@user-Jenn82]

Amen!! Yes very true! Glad to see more true remnant bible believing Christian’s standing with God’s chosen people ✡️ Many of us too in our church and many Christian’s I know have committed to opening our homes to help the Jewish people should they need to flee evil antisemitic people. When I think about the love God has for the Jewish people it brings tears to my eyes. Thank you for being a bold remnant Christian! 🙏❤️❤️

[@stefansollberger5658]

@@user-Jenn82 Everything alright with you? Were you born like this?

[@user-Jenn82]

@@stefansollberger5658 Yes. I thought our comments were supportive and loving. Many Jewish people have in fact been appreciative of the Christian’s supporting them right now.

[@mashadyman6967]

Amen! Thank you Rabbi Jacobson! Always is an inspiration! Thank you for creating clarity in my mind to where I see myself! Why do I have a strong pull in my heart to be in Israel ❤

[@WadeHughes-ne5vd]

As always I thank the both of you. Best wishes to you both.

[@deniserb4754]

G'd bless Israel! And G'd bless you, Dear Rabbi. You have been a blessing in my life! I thank HaShem for your life!

[@yaccovbarak9453]

Why is this even a question any longer?!

[@smlourie]

1 trillion percent We all know this for over 3000 years

[@smlourie]

1 trillion percent We all know this for over 3000 years

[@smlourie]

1 trillion percent We all know this for over 3000 years

[@smlourie]

1 trillion percent We all know this for over 3000 years

[@elisabethm9655]

No one ever has to justify going ’home’…and Eretz Yisroel is the home of each and every Jew.

[@akuuesi8753]

Amen 🙏🏽 amazingly beautiful 🩵 ✡️

[@michaelwaldman6037]

All our souls are connected🇮🇱 (what’s happening to you is happening to me) We feel each other’s happiness and pain. Now I understand why my soul is yearning for Israel, it’s our only true HOME!

[@1dk869]

May hashem grant you the opportunity to come in good health and happiness ❤shabbat shalom 😊

[@user-Jenn82]

Yes Israel is your home given by the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob 🙏 I’m a Gentile Christian who loves the Jewish people, I will stand with you until the end. God loves the Jewish people so much it brings tears to my eyes. ✡️🙏✝️

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

Please come home, and spread the word!

[@elanacomrov3721]

Thank you so much for your brilliance 🇮🇱🇮🇱. You speak the truth

[@spencermorris5873]

God bless you rabbi!!!

[@aaronblackman6906]

The only question will it be when you want to or have to. The world has changed

[@BuddyServes]

Yes, make Aliyah

[@michellekatz1023]

Yes. Make Aliya today

[@lgfndkrachel3971]

I wish for all soon is possible we should be in Israel 🇮🇱 I love my contry ❤let pray harder we should bring Moshiyh

[@GillesMeunier-co8gl]

It is possible right now, don't push back the truth

[@reneiloesepharatla1177]

That's so good Rabbi. Your introduction

[@sherylkruger3344]

Thank you Rabbi YY

[@jimcaswell4488]

I am a Canadian of Jewish descent and even I feel the tug of home... Especially in this time of the world, where hatred of Jews is spreading due to countries immigration policies.

[@milkamilosevic9626]

Bravo,bravo rabbi!👍brilliant💎!Baruch Hashem🙌💪✡️

[@thecareerchannel4312]

Thanks!

[@nushiepiroozian156]

Thank you ! 😍

[@user-Jenn82]

I Believe according to biblical prophecy the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob is drawing His chosen people, the Jewish people back to their homeland. I personally believe Israel is the safest place for the Jewish people 🇮🇱❤️. In Israel the Iron Dome is for protection and the IDF is active. I’m a Gentile Christian and I help fight antisemitism. My husband was just in Israel and it was very peaceful. We are doing everything we can by fighting back and trying to help the Jewish people. Many have committed to opening our homes should Jewish people need to flee evil antisemitic people. I’m sorry the Jewish people are facing such horrible antisemitism. Many stand with you though it’s just many times we are silenced on social media or our comments are deleted by KZbin etc.

[@YonieZukowsky51]

Most immigrants to Israel from English speaking countries manage to build a meaningful life for themselves.It's not easier and it is not supposed to be easy but I think most of the Olim find a sense of meaning and purpose in this special land. Israel and the return of the Jewish people is a miracle.Every Oleh can make a contribution.

[@user-ud7io9bo5i]

As a Christian Jordanian I admire this rabbi and I love his jokes

[@Aaronisification]

Great great discussion

[@libertyloveslife5602]

Nice ideas thank u

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

Please, if you are a Jew in the diaspora, unless you work in outreach, your place is in Israel. Please do not listen to rabbis who tell you to stay put, however great their stature. The spies too were leaders of the nation. If you have challenges, whatever they are, ask Hashem to help you and make miracles for you. The exile is over. It is NOT your job to fight the global madness.

[@phoebeb8956]

Thank you. My question is - So what does it look like for us to show up w self respect? Model it in a conversation - something solid for us to see

[@michaelgold6742]

Excellant

[@Rapenzel57nowhere]

I am not a Jew but an RC Christian and I support Israel 💯💯for fighting as retaliation against the genocide committed by Hamas on 7th October as well as for their RIGHT of Existence. I Pray and wish that ALL JEWS are united in this just cause with just ONE VOICE and thus making you STRONGER. Anyway I am convinced that Yeshu your Jewish Messiah who had declared himself as the Son of the Living God and that HE is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE will show you THE WAY snd THE TRUTH. Praise the Lord. The good will prevail FINALLY

[@Shatchin]

All Jews should live in Israel, just not all at the same time. I made my shift there

[@SHS1HS]

Please come to Israel! Come..

[@kfamily770]

If you come here, you'll change the sad situation, make a normal governmental decision.

[@julieschechter3995]

AMEN!

[@bridgittelavallee3792]

Thank you for this lecture 😭😭

[@1dk869]

❤ shabbat shalom 😊 you can do it

[@bridgittelavallee3792]

@@1dk869 Yes, Hashem said we can! Thank you for your encouragement 😃

[@deniserb4754]

Israel is home! G'd bless and protect Israel and IDF!

[@a.a.ismael4255]

Thank u for mentioning Syria rabbi ❤

[@hananrutstein3734]

A lot of talk from Rabbi YY. He is good at that. Unfortunately, save yourselves before it's too late is what you should be doing. Get yourselves over here and stop bsing. A Jew who came home 40 years ago and Baruch Hashem has 22 grandchildrew all living in eretz hakodesh..

[@mitchl.7276]

Good for you. I agree it’s mostly talk and his silly patronizing tone. Bottom line, No one wants to leave the flesh pots in the US. Rav Kahane always said that, more true than ever.

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

Agree, it was all just obfuscation.

[@1dk869]

Kol hakavod to you ❤ yes I felt that strongly throughout my life - 23 baruch hashem back home

[@Sukie78]

Yes. Shalom 🙏

[@spiritofseventysix1155]

Of course, if not now, when would be the right time, I seek no better course of action in faith and covenant in Hashem ... for me, that is, anothes then that may very well be another better time, which is understandable and sound enough reasoning for now ...

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

Very disappointing. It would be better to say nothing than to lead Jews into a false sense of security and complacency. When the opposite message is desperately needed. Absolutely, the captain should be the last person on the sinking ship, as he organises the mass emergency aliya of all Jews. Some will do it by themselves, but many need spiritual and practical leadership and assistance. Every day there is a voice from heaven that calls out, lech lecha me'artzcha .... the same call to Avraham Avinu, go to yourself from your country. Jews have to listen and act. The exile is a curse that is over now. Jews are not required to remain dispersed globally in order to fight the global situation. The most important thing a Jew can do for Israel is to come and live here and inhabit the land. We don't need your presents. We need your presence. Over the last thirty years Israel has filled up with non-Jews because Jews wouldn't make aliya.

[@healthymom8112]

yesssssss finally a voice of truth - " better to say nothing than to lead Jews into a false sense of security and complacency. When the opposite message is desperately needed" i feel like im in the twilight zone!!!

[@dovbarleib3256]

You should deeply consider it now. The counter-intuitive choice in the middle of this "existential" war is the correct choice.

[@bookmouse2719]

It's about parnassa, if you have a way to make a living in Eretz Israel and have a plan you can do it. Go and contact the Jewish Agency and your local Israeli consulate.

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

Especially for native English speakers, there are global parnassa opportunties from your screen. Also, there are many employment opportunities given all the men in the reserves.

[@mouthdropping216]

Bh we had the merit to love in Erez yisreal for 3 almost 4 years and the amount of miracles hashem did for us here is unreal. TRUTH be told all Jews are all coming back the ? Is wether it’s going to be threw inspiration or desperation!

[@lunakeren912]

You can't understand the meaning of home until you do Alyiah, my family and I did Alyiah 3 years ago and there are no words to describe this feeling. Everyone can have an emotional connection with the Holy Land, even Christians and Arabs, but if you want to fulfill Hashem's words, accept the gift he gave us, the physical land, get out of your comfort zone and be part of the Jewish Nation. And if you are a spiritual leader, with all due respect, the sheep need to follow the shepherd, not the shepherd the sheep.

[@AbelbenAdam]

From MbD to RmBm; It's interesting how in an effort to make things sound rational (like putting up the "Moshiach to do list") you can turn them in completely irrational propositions so that in the end you have to put a disclaimer on all of it. In reality, only the monarch can do any of things on the list. So if you don't have a king from the start, you don't have anything.

[@burnham4557]

I live in New York and always loved this place however since october 7 there has been rampent antisemtisim. I want to he surounded by people who I can be assured will not treat me that way. I have never thought of moving to Israel until recently but now im seriously considering it

[@wolfbenson]

The answer to the question begins at 24:00. What was said before that was very good but the actual question is not addressed until the 24th minute of the video.

[@freedom4all581]

My the world be cleansed. And may the Noahide rise above all of this mess. Cling to the Jewish nation and they will teach us the truth.

[@Parchouli]

Yes all Jews should make Alliyah. Israel is the only place you are safe . You have strong Arm Forces that can protect you, unlike with other country. They may have mix loyalty. Some will hate you and some will love.

[@davidherman29]

As a Christian I stand with Israel. Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@robertbokke]

Absolutely.

[@freemusic1001]

Yes. Come

[@avrumy3463]

I tried and after three years had to move to the US because couldn’t find a job that pays enough to support myself. Everything is expensive there from rent to food… and very few jobs and even those are with low wages unless you’re a professional.

[@sunnyisland6709]

Would be nice ❤

[@user-uz7dm6qn3y]

I finished university in 1978, and took the first plane out of the US to Israel. I've never looked back. At that time yeridah from Israel was higher than aliyah. The popular joke of the day was "tell the last one out (from the Ben Gurion Airport) to turn-off the lights." I fought my parents in order to leave the US, and Israeli society in order to enter. I had to kick in the door to be acepted into an Israel that thought I was crazy for coming and therefore a lot less hospitable in those days. When you decide that being a Jew in exile is shameful and you cannot live with that shame, you make your aliyah a do or die quest. I did. I am living the life G-d intended for a Jew, and a raised a family of which I'm proud.

[@57andstillkicking]

That’s wonderful! How important is God on your life?

[@user-uz7dm6qn3y]

@@57andstillkicking First, I met Zionism, this led to God. When I decided I would only live in Israel, I also decided not to continue living as if I was a gentile. Without God, life is meaningless. I have a son who completed Diyan (judgeship) studies and teaches in a high yeshiva.

[@57andstillkicking]

@@user-uz7dm6qn3y Beautiful.

[@judystaab7126]

I have a love and yearning, for lsreal. Yes, a drawing, yet not enough,$ to go.❤😊

[@adarnach]

Please if you could kindly recall on your next talk about Eretz Yisrael, The fous story of 1 of the Holy Students of the Holy Baal.Shem tov that wanted his blessing /approval to make Aliya but ,,,,the point of this important messsge from his Holy Master was that he had to remain in Medziboz to realize that his *mission was his Eretz Yisrael in Medidzibuz!***

[@wondershpiel]

Thanks, Izzy for this great episode. Rabbi Jacobson is so inspiring. If I may be critical for a moment, you didn't get an answer the main question of the episode title: Should All Jews Make Aliyah to Israel Now? It wasn't even directly asked. He just talked about "Home is where they have to take you." A shopworn bromide that I personally find a bit negative. Personally, Aliyah is on my mind like never before. But one thing I've never been able to figure out is...why are most of the the most religious Jews in the diaspora not already gone home? They know it's a mitzvah. They know the need to bolster the country. They know things are getting worse here (especially in NYC). They're not like some assimilated, intermarried Jew who tries to downplay their identity at every turn, doesn't want to give up his McMansion and thriving business, and may be very lukewarm on Zionism itself. These are Torah Jews. So, what gives? Is Monsey so great? Teaneck? Are they just staying back here to steer the rest of us onto the El Al jets? Can't be that, many hasidim don't have any contact with the non-heredi Jewish world. I'd love a guide for the perplexed on this seeming contradiction. Again, great episode. Thanks for doing this serious and for wrestling!

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

Unfortunately, he didn't answer the question at all. ALL Jews should make aliya. I'm not going to pretend, it's not always easy, there may be challenges, but if you make aliya now, you will be embraced by Israelis like never before. The key to a successful aliya, is emuna, belief in Hashem, talk to Hashem constantly and ask for HIs help. Hashem can help you overcome any obstacle.

[@eilatharel287]

He did answer. He said - there are people who's mission is in the diaspora

[@healthymom8112]

1- erev rav, and 2- the klippot in chutz laaretz are very very strong i didnt listen to this video but if he is not telling EVERY SINLGE JEW TO PACK THEIR BAGS AND LEAVE RIGHT NOW he is doing them a great disservice, at best!!!!! the geula is happening right now, rabbanim in israel are screaming from the rooftops to leave chutz laaretz, have been for years. 2/3 of the world is about to be destroyed, israel is and will be the safest place. tick tock

[@myisraelnarrative]

i hear where you are coming from. on the one hand, it seems glaringly clear. but when you peel back the layers and speak with people, you see that this question is much more complex. Many unfortunately have tried to go to Israel and don't make it. Others want to so badly but simply don't have the means or would cause great harm to their children if they were to make the move. It is still something I am toiling with, but I think it's safe to say that we should be working on building an understanding that Israel is our one true home and aspire to be there, but understand that not everyone may be able to at this point in time.

[@57andstillkicking]

@@myisraelnarrative Very well put!

[@Rapenzel57nowhere]

The prophesy of Jeremiah is coming to reality. Nothing going to STOP that. 14 I will let you find me, says the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

[@archielea1200]

Yea, come home my people Come home To Israel your home Says IAM that Iam Amen and amen

[@ijay796]

Should all people be people...

[@butterflyqueen9792]

Yes, they should all go

[@adarnach]

לכל מקום שאני הולך אני הולך לארץ ישראל ,,,ובנתיים אני נמצא בברסלב !:[ר'נחמן מברסלב!זיעא זצל!] Your idea is so clear about Eretz Yisrael , ,,,its like hearing that true statement said by the Holy great grandson of the Holy Baal Shemtov !! Thanks you just enhanced Rabbi Nachman holy teachings about this huge deep concept of galut geula the Center point Morarlity of the entire world ,,,!we are definitely the *Lamplighters of the entire planet earth til mashiach is coming המהרה בימינו אמן

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

You're mistaken. Hashem wants Jews to come home, not remain in the curse of exile. Aliya hastens the geula.

[@Tzimtzum26]

@@elishevabarenbaum5319 there is exile even in Israel. There are many antisemites in the government. The laws are backwards and repressive, prices are high and out of control. Etc etc. Aliyah does not hasten the geula, in fact opposite arguments could be made. While Eretz Yisrael is wonderful, it’s not so simple to move there and live under the government currently in power

[@vincentwhite6707]

Am Yisrael Chai! An to answer her question. YES you must visit your ancestors homeland! Maybe stay awhile!😳😂😘💕✌️✌️✌️✌️ Ok ok all jokes aside, if your a person that's willing to work and move forward, come home an add your presence to your Jewish family in Yisrael!

[@jaime9494]

I come from jewish families but we stop being jewish and my great great mother converted my grandmother to catholicisme. But my jewish genes are there still and I don’t see myself at all in the catholicisme any more, since a year already that I feel that I should re-convert to Judaism and do my Aliyah. I never really felt home in my country of Portugal.

[@DrKaii]

On your mother's side?

[@jaime9494]

@@DrKaiiyes, and father side too.

[@Privateaccount433]

I head a lot of Jewish people from Portugal and many countries were converted out of fear, or just assimilated to the country. I hope more of these jews will come home. Sending love ❤

[@Toovy]

To the rabbi's point about Jews demonstrating morality, I think that's exactly what were doing now... Were demonstrating morality in war

[@stefanoeddarampoldi4691]

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[@AliciaSanchez-dm1dm]

Is true we want to see jwesh people rise has a head not the tail .

[@HannahRoen3]

I have appreciated the teachings of this rabbi over the years. However, I don't agree with promoting the idea that it's ok for Jews to stay living in the diaspora. The rabbi does mention that everyone will come home "some day". That time is so obviously NOW. Look at all of the signs! To those of us living in Israel, it's very clear that the anti-semitism in the diaspora is Hashem's way of pressuring the rest of the Jews to come home to Israel. It is very surprising to us that diaspora Jews don't see this clearly... When trying to decide about whether to make aliyah, we don't tell ourselves that "it's not practical for me to make aliyah". That's not the question. We ask Hashem to show me how I CAN make aliyah. Of course there is a divine plan! I made aliyah 12 years ago as a divorced middle-aged woman with 2 daughters, no other family here, no Hebrew yet, and not much money. Hashem has taken good care of us. Jewish life is so absolutely rich and meaningful here that it's hard to even travel back to the "old country" (USA) for a visit. More importantly, HASHEM WANTS US HERE. To the interviewer, you would have to ask the question about whether to make aliyah now to a rabbi already in Israel. Someone who has not made aliyah will not advise YOU to make aliyah. My rabbis in America had told me that I would "never make it here". They were wrong.

[@Privateaccount433]

You're so brave! I'm so glad you're here and I hope more will come, I cannot stand the antisemitism they are tolerating.

[@myisraelnarrative]

I appreciate you sharing this perspective and do plan to interview more Israelis to hear that perspective as well. Stay tuned!

[@Mpc5061]

Yes, if they can

[@arielshalem]

If every Jew can have the liberty to serve in God's army where he sees best, does this mean that the mitzvah to live in eretz yisrael is a choice? If so what about other mitzvot? If i feel that God needs me to focus on tzedaka but not shabbat can i just skip shabbat?

[@GillesMeunier-co8gl]

Your comment begins with IF. And here there is no IF. It is a bad thing to live outside Israël, hilul hashem, there are enough sources about the talmud

[@DJOrenstein]

I truely feel disappointed, the Rov speaks with so much clarity and titles the video with a question that he can’t and doesn’t clearly answer. Everyone can find a so called “valid” reason not to make the jump.

[@1dk869]

And everyone can make a choice to yes jump 😊❤ shabbat shalom - I made the jump

[@Privateaccount433]

Welcome! ❤

[@lgfndkrachel3971]

Also in Israel is not yet for us will be easy but home sweet home we hardly should pray and pray for us should be easy to make Aliya bh I meant when Moshiyh will come we all should be there bh I mean that way Amen! Of course we all should be there soon is possible Home sweet home it is our nation home Israel bh love my contry Israel long lafe to Israel and all who belongs there

[@GillesMeunier-co8gl]

Not yet for you? So you have a big mistva, the fact you are breathing any seconds outside Israel is a shame for G.od, and you are telling this is not for you...really?

[@chayagross6885]

Everyday that Jews don’t make aliyah is a chilul Hashem! Old conversation…that’s why I stopped listening to those that still try to rationalize living “the good life”. Expecting Moshiach any day now…can’t wait to see if all those saying they will come with Moshiach…in fact, will even come then. Am Yisrael Chai! Blessings from Yerushalayim. ❤️🇮🇱

[@1dk869]

Yes , more self reflection is required by jews across the disapora it's a process and hashems timing is perfect 😊❤ shabbat shalom

[@chayagross6885]

@@1dk869 have been waiting more than 40 years…the narrative is the same. When Moshiach comes… If we had another million Jews living here our situation would be very different. Agree…everything in its time. But…never again is NOW! ❤️🇮🇱

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

Spot on. Israel has filled up with non Jews because real Jews refuse to come. @@chayagross6885

[@naomilevell9990]

It doesn't matter whether they should, unless and until it will happen. The Bible and the Tanakh say it will happen. But it isn't going to happen because of anything Netanyahu or any other world leader says. It will only happen when every Jewish heart worldwide is filled with an absolutely overriding desire to return, and this is not a change that humans can accomplish.

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

? Of course it is a change that a person can make. Each individual nurtures the desire to make aliya, and encourages their family and friends, and they translate it into action.

[@naomilevell9990]

True. But there's only One who can nurture that desire in EVERY Jew. @@elishevabarenbaum5319

[@GillesMeunier-co8gl]

Wrong. Every rabbi should speak about it. They are responsible, but they are failing...and really a big failure...

[@naomilevell9990]

Several confirmations of it are already in the annual Torah reading. How can any rabbi accomplish avoiding the subject being stated clearly to everyone in his shul at least that many times every year? Maybe they aren't talking about ENOUGH, I wouldn't know without being there, but how can they even accomplish not talking about it at all? And I think that God will surely start pressing their hearts to talk about it when the time comes for the ingathering to be completed. And the great ingathering is unlikely to happen all at once. Consider the return from Persia. How many years elapsed from the declaration of the return, until Queen Esther's time, when it had still barely started happening at all? Compare that to now, when it's only been, (what? 101 years?) since the Palestine Mandate, and already we are within sight of Israel holding half of the world's Jewish population. @@GillesMeunier-co8gl

[@brinoslo4015]

What’s with those tunnels? What’s up with those mattresses?

[@1dk869]

Lower vibrational energy and hate manifested physically

[@luiszampa9365]

How can I return to the Land of Israel ?