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כאן תמצא בעז"ה כל הספרים וענינים על גודל החיוב מצות ישוב
ארץ ישראל בזמן הזה, ועניני קדושת ארץ ישראל בזמן הזה
אמר הקדוש ברוך הוא למשה: הארץ חביבה עלי, וישראל חביבים עלי,
אכניס את ישראל שהם חביבים עלי, לארץ שחביבה עלי (במדבר רבה כג)
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This is what abolished our kingdom, destroyed our Beit HaMikdash, prolonged our exile, and brought us to our present predicament. Our fathers sinned and are no more.
For they found many astrology books, followed them, and went astray. They imagined that these wisdoms were glorious and greatly beneficial, and they did not study warfare and land conquest. Instead, they imagined that these wisdoms would help them. Therefore, the prophets called them fools; and they certainly were fools, for they followed vanities which cannot avail nor rescue, for they are vain. (Iggrot U'Teshuvot LeRambam, Iggrot Shonot, p. 21. 204)
The Rambam writes as follows: (Rambam, Laws of Kings and Their Wars, 7:15) "A man should not think at the time of war of his wife, nor of his children, nor of his possessions, but he must free his heart of everything and set himself to the battle. And more - he should think that the entire existence of Israel depends on him. And if he is afraid and turns back, it is as if he spilled the blood of his comrades. And regarding this, it is written: 'Not to melt his brother's heart like his heart'... For everyone who fights with all of his heart, and with the intention to sanctify the Name of Hashem, is promised that he will not be harmed... and he will merit the life of the World To Come." (Rambam, Laws of Kings and Their Wars, 7:15)
Kol HaTor (Ch. I, letter 10), quotes the holy Gra:
It says, "In Mount Zion and Jerusalem there shall be those who escape... and among the remnant those whom Hashem shall call" (Joel 3:5). According to Midrash Tanchuma, Zion, in the mountains, is equated with Mashiach ben Yosef, such that whatever happens to Joseph happens to Zion. Our master hinted at this also through the word ["among the remnant"] having a numerical value of 566, the same as [Mashiach ben Yosef], for according to our master, the ingathering of the exiles will occur through him. The greater the ingathering will be, the stronger the forces of impurity [sitra achra] will become. Also, there will be an increase in Divine prosecution of those who do not support the ingathering of the exiles, since the redemption will start through it! for then there will be survivors in Zion and Jerusalem and from the remnant. Our master worried about this greatly.
G-d's whole refusal to bring the speedy redemption that could have come immediately, and His choosing instead to bring slow, sorrowful redemption "in its time," is explained in the work Kol HaTor based on the Gra (Ch. I, letter 15): "We asked our master why the start of redemption must be specifically "gradual." If an auspicious moment comes for G-d to gather the scattered of Israel, will He lack the might to make the ingathering an enormous, immediate event? Our master responded that the whole idea of gradual redemption applies where Israel lack merit, that is, where redemption does not come through our righteousness".
Rav Eliyahu The Vilna Gaon ZTKL
I discovered a letter written by the author of the Tanya (The Alter Rebbe ZTKL) to the Rebbe of Berditchev, informing him of his release from prison in Petersburg. The letter was written in 5559 [1799], and is printed in Beit Rebbe, chap. 18. Also see a similar letter in Iggrot Ba'al HaTanya, David Tzvi Hillman (Jerusalem, 5713 [1953]), no. 62
“I shall recount and declare that which is too great to tell. For Hashem has done wondrously in the land. Who am I, lowly of men, that Hashem has helped me glorify and sanctify His name... This was all Hashem’s doing. He has arranged this by virtue of the merit of the Holy Land and its inhabitants. This is what stood by our side and will always assist in relieving us from the oppressor and delivering us from distress.”
From his holy words I learned an entirely new concept, of which I was unaware until now and which I had not come across in any book. That is, when a Jew is in trouble, he can be saved through the merit of Eretz Israel and its inhabitants... (From Em ha Banim Semecha)
"Don't you know? Haven't you heard? The beauty, the glory and the greatness of the Mitzvah of strengthening the settlement of Eretz Israel, for it is a great Mitzvah, to awaken the old love and the desire for the Holy Land and to renew the love as former days, so that the love burns like flames of fire The Alter Rebbe brought in the Sefer Mishnat Yoel)
The Zohar ha Kaddosh states: "R. Chiya said, 'The nations will rule over Israel for only one day, a day of the Holy One Blessed be He, which is a thousand years. It is thus written, “He has made me desolate, faint throughout the day” (Eichah I:13), one day and no longer.' R. Yosi said, 'If [the Jews] are subjugated longer than this, it is not because of the King's decree, but because they refuse to return towards Him " (Zohar 2:17a). (Minchat Yehuda sec. 18, p. 237 by R Yehuda Alkalai)
Rabbi Yehuda Chai Alkalai writes in a Kol Korai, "Because Israel didn't rise up to return to our Land, and to the inheritance of our forefathers, the decrees began, the expulsions and slaughters, for the matter is dependent on the repentance of returning to Eretz Israel (Kol Korai, Rabbi Yehuda Chai Alkalai. The Writings of Rav Alkalai.)
Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai ZTK'L 5639
The redemption of Israel and our righteous Mashiach whom we hope for all day long, Don't think that suddenly Hashem Yitbarach Shemo will come from the heavens to the earth and say to His people: Come out...It is not so, little by little the redemption of Israel will come...The beginning of the Geula will be through natural means originating from man...
And it will come to pass that when there will be many of the remnant of Israel in the Holy Land and in Yerushalaim, and when their sacrifice will ascend as a pleasant aroma to Hashem and will cure the broken Mizbeach, Then there will be The Will of Hashem to bring down the light of his face for His people
Rav Tzvi Hirsch Kalisher Ztk'l Author of Derishat Tzion
Our mentor, the Chatam Sofer, (Derashot Chatam Sofer, Derush for Shabbat HaGadol 5558 [1798], vol. 2, p. 233a ) explains:
…..Chazal state, "One Torah scholar from Eretz Israel is like two from Babylonia. And, one of us [from Babylonia] who ascends to Eretz Israel is like two of them" (Ketuvot 75a).
Thus, any Tzaddik from the Diaspora who ascends to Eretz Israel is equal to four tzaddikim. Now, it seems to me that he does not have to actually ascend. Even if he just desires to ascend, but fails, he is considered like four tzaddikim and is worthy to have a miracle occur on his account. For, anyone who contemplates doing a mitzvah, but is unable to do so, Scripture considers it as if he did it (Berachot 6a).
“Rav Ami and Rav Asi used to (have their students) get up (and move) from a sunny place to a shady place, and from a shady place to a sunny one.” (Ketuvot 112)
The Ben Ish Chai comments on this Gemara the following: “So that no student would be moved to say, about the place where they stood, ‘not good,’ and thereby speak ill of a piece of the earth of Eretz Israel. And from this should every man learn a lesson:
to guard his mouth and tongue against any negative utterance, condemning even one cubit of Eretz Israel, whether its air, its weather, its fruits, or its buildings; even in a time when the Land is desolate and in gentile hands, and the houses belong to non-Jews.”
The Ben Ish Chai
