Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

Declarations that the future for Jews is in Israel is not limited to Mizrachi or Dati Leumi people. In 2017, a yeshivish American Rosh Yeshiva declared at an Agudah convention that the future was in Israel because “the center of limud haTorah and psak halacha” had shifted there.  Is that even true? Beis Midrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey is likely the largest yeshiva in the world and there are many large yeshivas in the New York area.   An AI search revealed the following: The number of yeshivas in New York depends on how they're counted, but here are the estimates from different sources: ~450 yeshivas in New York State (as of 2020, per Times of Israel), with approximately 160,000–163,000 students enrolled ~120 yeshivas in New York (per ByteScraper business database) Brooklyn alone has 62+ yeshivas , representing over half of the state's total The variation comes from different definitions — some counts include small independent religious schools and Hasidic institu...

"Harav Yisroel Reisman, shlita, insisted that the future of Klal Yisrael is in Eretz Yisrael, as we are currently witnessing the shift of the center of limud haTorah and psak halachah to Eretz Yisrael, a phenomenon that has not existed since the times of Rav and Shmuel, 2,000 years ago. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to support the mosdos and citizens of Eretz Yisrael financially and emotionally, and give proper respect to those who come collecting from Eretz Yisrael." https://web.archive.org/web/20211206090356/https://hamodia.com/2017/01/06/midwest-agudath-israel-convention-begins/ Why is the future in EY before Moshiach arrives? How does he know that Israel will even exist tomorrow? The Shema tells us we will be kicked out for not observing the commandments and 4.5 million Israelis violate the Sabbath every week and have performed millions of abortions. Reisman, who lives in NY, doesn't know what goes on in Israel.  How is Torah centered in EY? America has plen...

Here's the house I visited yesterday, a relative who 'made aliyah.' Sounds so noble when you hear it, no? Made aliyah. One of the non-materialistic good guys. Here's a house just like theirs in their neighborhood: You don't know the backstory. You just hear that they made aliyah. So let’s see, they have lots of family here, are intensely Zionistic, speak Hebrew from day school (one has a surgeon for a father), are Modern Orthodox so they don’t have the battle with the army, and they have 2 million dollars for a big house that would be fancy in Monsey. Are they retirees with a lifetime of savings? Nope, they came when they were twenty. Are they lucky business owners? Nope. He works in the government and she has an online job for a marketing company.  Somebody handed them millions of dollars. Oh they try to play that down by saying 'they got a good deal' and 'they bought it used.' Meanwhile it looks brand new. I know many stories like this, people who ...

  Q: Is Hashem also Elokei Yisroel of the assimilated Jews? A: Now you must know that Yisroel means only those who are ma’aminim baHashem , ma’aminim in Matan Torah , ma’aminim in briyas ha’olam yesh me’ayin .  Although there’s a maamar that says ישראל אף על פי שחטא ישראל הוא, it doesn’t mean Yisroel who’s an apikores .  No. שחטא means he sinned; let’s say there’s a Yisroel who did certain sins, but he’s a Jew who believes in everything. And therefore he’s a Yisroel.   But once he stops belonging to the Klal Yisroel that believes in Elokim, in briyas ha’olam yesh me’ayin or in Matan Torah , then he doesn’t belong at all to the Am Yisroel.  Of course he can come back if he does teshuvah , but in that state of meridah, of rebellion, he does not belong to the Am Yisroel.   The truth is, we’re not even mechuyev to worry about his life.  If he’s in danger, we’re not interested in saving him.  I don’t want to say it in public, but...

On a car at the airport in Israel. This is the most important issue to some of these people. Not healthcare, not housing, not the economy, not even safety but getting Haredim in the military. That's what matters to them. The sticker says "Military conscription should be for all." So if you are Yeshivish or Chasidic, how can you possibly move here? They consider you the enemy over here. If you are sane, how can you move here if this is what concerns these people? What kind of society is it going to be if this is the #1 goal? The goal of Zionism, said Rav Chaim Soloveitchik, is to destroy the Torah. 

A local yeshiva is sending out Succah decorations to its donors, most of whom live in America. The only donors here are a few Americans. Israelis don’t give. So the staff stuffed 300 envelopes and took them to the post office, after making an appointment as is required and waiting three days. Guess what? The post office which is located in one of those so-called Anglo communities only had thirty international stamps, each of which needed to be licked. There were no self-adhesive sticker stamps So now the yeshiva clerk must make a new appointment for when the stamps that were ordered come in. Who knows if that will happen before Succos. I asked the woman who is handling all this for the yeshiva what her view is of Hershel Schachter's declaration that Israel has "all the modern inventions." She said the following: "It's ridiculous." I asked, "Why does he say it?" She thought a moment and said tentatively, "He wants it to be true, maybe. But it i...