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2 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 Table of Contents Yom Haatzmaut 2015/5775 Dedicated in memory of Cantor Jerome L. Simons

From L’Shana Haba’ah to Hatikva: An Expression of Hope and Prayer 4 on Exalted Nights by Rabbi Naphtali Lavenda Parents’ Perspective on Their Children’s : The Good, the Bad and 7 the Ugly (It’s All Good) by Rebbetzin Meira Davis Aspiring With the Ramban by Rabbi Kenny Schiowitz 13

3 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 From L’Shana Haba’ah to Hatikva: An Expression of Hope and Prayer on Exalted Nights

clearly remember the last Pesach Seder before we made aliyah six years ago. We reached the Rabbi Naphtali Lavenda Iculminating point where everyone Director of Online Rabbinic Programming joyously sings together L’Shana haba’ah B’Yerushalayim, which Center For The Jewish Future obviously had deeper meaning for us that year. But then I began to wonder, במדרש )מכילתא יד( אף הזוכר במפורש .what do people who are already living we will be redeemed כי ליל הסדר הוא זמן הראוי לגאולה: 'ליל in Israel, specifically Yerushalayim, say Rosh Hashana 10b- 11a שימורים הוא לה בו נגאלו ובו עתידין if they are already there? What about Based on this, Rabbi Yitzchak Arieli – ' להיגאל בשני הזמנים הללו אנו זוכים להיות tourists and visitors who are spending (Mashgiach of Mercaz '. זכים וטהורים במוצאי יו כ לאחר תהליך ?Pesach in Yerushalayim HaRav in who lived from – " . הכפרה והסליחה בליל הסדר לאחר The same can be said for the end of 1896-1974), in his Haggadah Shiras – . שיצאנו לחירות פנימית השתחררנו מכל Yom Kippur, which in of itself is a Hageula (p.94) offers an explanation , השעבודים החיצוניים וזכינו להתקרב אל ה question – what makes Yom Kippur to our question. According to R’ .' , כעת מרגישים אנו מוכנים ומבקשים בצורה and Pesach night unique as the only Elazar and R’ Yehoshua, either Tishrei , ישירה לשנה הבא בירושלים הבנויה two times throughout the year we or Nissan will be the month that the .' ', include this as a set part of our liturgy? redemption will take place and that The Midrash states explicitly that Seder night is a time worthy of redemption. The Gemara describes when the is why we specifically sayL’Shana “It is the night where Hashem guards future redemption will take place: haba’ah B’Yerushalayim on these two holidays, Yom Kippur in Tishrei and us,” In it, we were redeemed and we רבי אליעזר אומר ... בניסן נגאלו בתשרי Pesach in Nissan. will once again be redeemed. At both of these times, we have merited being עתידין ליגאל. רבי יהושע אומר ... בניסן However, there are several chagim in clean and pure. At the conclusion of Yom נגאלו בניסן עתידין ליגאל. Tishrei. Why specifically choose Yom Kippur, after the process of atonement ראש השנה י:-יא. Kippur? R. Eliezer says … In Nissan we were and forgiveness, and on Seder night, redeemed and in Tishrei, we will be Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon in his after we have experienced an inner redeemed. R. Yehoshua says … In Haggadah Shiras Miriam (p.372) also redemption and were freed from our Nissan we were redeemed and in Nissan, references this Gemara, but adds: external influences, we merit coming close to Hashem. At that moment we feel

This article is dedicated to my dear friend Rav Gavriel Pinchas ben Devora Zlata. May he merit a refuah shleimah. 4 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 ready and are able to request in a direct and a promise. “We are praying for The Yom Kippur They Sang fashion: next year in a rebuilt Jerusalem. redemption, but we also are confident Hatikva 1 Nonetheless, there is now one other that it will surely come.” Interestingly, there are some time during the year when many This same concept can be applied communities who have the custom proclaim L’Shana’ah haba’ah as part of to our song of L’Shana haba’ah to sing Hatikva at the conclusion of the tefilla, on Leil Yom Ha’Atzmaut. B’Yerushalayim — not just a Neila on Yom Kippur, including some How does Yom Ha’Atzmaut fit the declaration that we physically be Northern Tel Aviv Synagogues4 and paradigm we saw previously? present in Yerushalayim next year, but the Jerusalem Great .5 a confident prayer we will be there in Let’s rewind to the beginning of the the framework of the . Rabbi Yitzchak Avigdor Ornstein Haggadah, where we can learn from a (1894-1948), former Rabbi of the similarly worded statement to L’Shana But what about those already living in , also writes6 haba’ah B’Yerushalayim: Yerushalayim? about an episode that occurred at the A story is told about Rabbi Abraham Kotel at the end of Yom Kippur in 1945 השתא הכא לשנה הבא בארעא דישראל. Now we are here. Next year, we shall be Isaac Kook when he once went to after the blowing of the shofar and in the . fundraise in America. A wealthy man singing of L’Shana haba’ah, “The young offered a significant donation on Rabbi writes: men and women began singing Hatikva the condition that Rav Kook would and other songs… they davened explain to him why Yerushalami Maariv, and the young men and הדברים שאינם מוכנים צריכים זמן רב say L’Shana haba’ah B’Yerushalayim women left the Kotel area in song…”7 להתפתחותם אבל מה שכבר מוכן בעצמותו at the end of the Seder and also the וסיבות צדדיות מנעו מהיות ההכנה יוצאת While this custom may have !end of Neilah if they are already there אל הפועל תיכף כשתסור המניעה יוצא מה originated from those (secular) young Rav Kook answered that we add the שמוכן כבר אל הפועל. יחוסנו לארץ ישראל men and women at the kotel,8 word “habnuya”, for there is still time איננו יחש מקרי אבל הוא יחש אלהי טבעי it is nonetheless an expression of .until this will be fulfilled completely לנו כל הוייתנו ועצמותנו קשורות הנה בארץ yearning, prayer and tikva, hope, for And then, he added wryly, when we חמדה וכל ריחוקנו מאדמתנו מפני חטאינו a national redemption to not only ,say L’Shana haba’ah B’Yerushalaim לא גרם שינוי בעצמיות ערכנו והננו תמיד return to Israel (as they currently lived our intention is that our whole being קשורים לאדמת קדשנו בכל טבע לבבנו there) but to receive independence in ,should merit to be in Yerushalayim ועצמותנו בארעא דישראל. the Jewish homeland, which L’Shana both physically, spiritually and סידור עולת ראיה חלק ב' עמ' רסה haba’ah also represents. Things which are not prepared require a mentally, unlike nowadays when some long time to develop, but things which are can live in Yerushalayim but their inherently prepared and external factors mind is elsewhere, thinking about Hatikva Pesach Night prevent them from coming to fruition trips to America to collect money.2 will sprout once that external factor is In 1919, the sefer Midrash Haggadah Similar to Rav Kook, many removed. Our relationship with the Land was printed in Djerba, Tunisia. This commentators from the last century of Israel is not an arbitrary feeling, but Haggadah was the work of Rabbi also add the word habnuya either rather a Divine feeling for us. Our entire Tzemach Cohen the 2nd (1744- parenthetically or with a notation essence and being is connected to the 1830), a Dayan, Torah scholar and specifying it as minhag Eretz Yisrael or Land and our distance from it because Kabbalist from Djerba, and included Minhag Yerushalayim.3 of our sins does not change our inherent 55 different commentaries he had The addition ofhabnuya transforms state. We are constantly connected to our collected into one work. When it was L’Shana haba’ah from a factual holy land with all of our hearts. published in 1919, the printer added proclamation to a confident and Olat Raayah, vol. 2, p.265 the song “Hatikva” to the very last hopeful prayer that we not only return page under the heading “Shir Hatikva”. Rav Kook understands this statement to Eretz Yisrael, but will see the full It was a logical inclusion, as the end of not merely as noting the facts (which geula with the rebuilding of the Beis the Seder dealt with aspects of geula may not be factual for one who Hamikdash by this time next year. (i.e. Chasal sidur Pesach and L’Shana lives in Israel), but rather as a prayer

5 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 haba’ah B’Yerushalayim), and the Jews “Happy New Year” is symbolized it was a creation by those who feel we’ve of Northern Africa had great affinity with an apple and honey rather than already reached partial geula and all that for Naftali Herz Imber’s Hatikva song.9 the ball dropping at Times Square, remains is building the Beis Hamikdash. 4. Dov Sedan, Ant Hu Malka Melech Additionally, some communities have and where, come December, Maoz Malchaya (1985) pg. 550 as cited in Arend the custom to sing Chasal sidur Pesach Tzur and Haneiros Halalu are playing (see note 8). to the tune of Hatikva, although throughout the stores rather than songs 5. As told to me by Sandy Cohen. Hatikva itself they do not recite.10 about Santa. It is exactly at this time, on 6. Rabbi Ornstein’s son, Shmuel Even- the 5th of Iyar, that we raise our voice Or, compiled into book form, a diary While the custom may have been Rabbi Ornstein had written about daily in praise, prayer and hope – started erroneously and was not L’Shana occurrences at the Kotel. Its title is Yoman ! widespread, the fact that Hatikva haba’ah B’Yerushalayim habnuya Hakotel HaMaaravi (Jerusalem, 1968). 7. Yoman HaKotel HaMaaravi p. 344 as quoted was even presumed to be naturally The miracle of Medinas Yisrael, and in Arend (note 8). On p.388, he tells a similar juxtaposed with L’Shana haba’ah all of the miracles we’ve seen over the episode from the following year as well. B’Yerushalayim at the end of the Seder, last almost 67 years in the Land of 8. See Dr. Aharon Arend, “Minhag Shirat demonstrates L’Shana haba’ah’s role Israel may only be the aschalta d’geula Hatikva Acharei Tekiat Shofar B’Motzaei Yom as a communication of tikva, hopeful (or aschalta d’aschalta d’geula), the HaKippurim,” Daf Shvui, Universitat Bar Ilan no. 255. Also see there for a more in depth prayer for the redemption, on the beginning of redemption, but we hope analysis and hypothesis of the relationship Night of Redemption, Leil HaSeder. and pray this Pesach that our prayer between Hatikva and the shofar blowing. will be answered, so that the 5th of 9. See Dr. Aharon Arend, “Hatikva B’Leil L’Shana Haba’ah on Yom Iyar and Yom Haatzmaut will truly be HaSeder,” Daf Shvui, Universitat Bar Ilan no. moadim l’simcha l’geula shleimah. 387. Dr. Arend notes that the North African Ha’atzmaut Jews’ affinity to Hatikva was most likely the Notes full original 9 stanza verse which is more We can now understand why L’Shana religious in nature and verse than the shorter haba’ah B’Yerushalayim is included on 1. The Night that Unites Haggadah; Rabbi Aaron Israeli national anthem Hatikva that we know Goldscheider, Urim Publications 2014. today. Also, many religious Jews were against Yom Ha’Atzmaut night. In a similar 2. Malachim Kivnei Adam, p. 221, as noted in vein to Pesach and Yom Kippur, we the revised version of Hatikva, specifically R. Shlomo Aviner’s Shu”t SMS “L’Shana for the secular tone and anti-Jewish ideology are offering a confident prayer as we Haba’ah B’Yerushalayim Habnuya.” of being an Am Chofshi. Imber’s original celebrate a time when we saw God 3. See Rabbi Menachem Kasher’s Haggadah verse instead read “lashuv l’eretz avoteinu shine on us “rays” of geula through Shleimah and Haggadat Pesach Artziyisraelit.; l’ir ba David chana, to return to the land Rav Aviner, op. cit., notes that Rabbi of our forefather, to the city where David the establishment of a Jewish state; Yaakov Moshe Charlop also listed habnuya Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik famously camped.” In fact, once the newer version parenthetically and Rabbi Shlomo of Hatikva became popular, the custom of asserted that the establishment of a Goren wrote it was Nusach Eretz Yisrael, Djerba to recite Hatikva Pesch night stopped. Jewish state was considered a great gift as the minhag to say L’Shana haba’ah Tangentially, this is why the Yom Haatzmaut that God gave us.11 Yom Ha’atzmaut B’Yerushalayim began in Chutz La’Aretz, special Tefillah at night does not include the as those who are in Eretz Yisrael, or more singing of Hatikva, but rather Shir Hamaalos has come to be a day that signifies accurately Yerushalayim, are already there our confidence in Hashem fulfilling (which almost was voted the Jewish national and therefore add habnuya. It should also be anthem at the World Zionist Congress in His promise to return us to our noted that in Haggadah Shel Pesach M’Beis 1933) to the tune of Hatikva. Land, where we can freely worship Levi p. 233, the GRI”Z was against adding 10. Arend, ibid. Him and observe Jewish law; where habnuya and changing the nusach, claiming 11. Nefesh HaRav pg. 85.

6 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 Parents’ Perspective on Their Children’s Aliyah: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (It’s All Good)

hat motivated some of our children to make aliyah? Nothing comes Rebbetzin Meira Davis fromW nothing. Director of Rebbetzins’ Programming, Center for the Many of my mother’s relatives Jewish Future emigrated from Germany to Israel prior to World War II. Due to for a year — not only were there no Abraham Israel Program. All spent at Hitler, yimach shemo, my mother, as cell phones then, there was barely least one year learning in Israel after a teenager, lived in Palestine from any phone service. I spoke to them high school. Batsheva, our seventh 1936-39, where her brother was twice the whole year by going to the child, was the first to make aliyah stoned in the Jaffa riots. Her father central post office and making an during her shana bet year. could not make a living there so he appointment to call them at a later Here are our children’s responses brought his family to the United time. States, always retaining his love and when asked what motivated them to connection to Eretz Yisrael and its My husband and I were brought up make aliyah: with youth groups in our people. My parents were both active • I grew up in a very Zionistic formative years. After getting married, members of Hapoel Hamizrachi. home and once I realized I was we visited Israel for three weeks. We My mom regularly went to Israeli presented with an opportunity to spoke Hebrew with our children until dancing classes and to ulpan classes to make living in Israel my reality, I they were about three years old — improve her Hebrew. I am named for took it! Israel is our homeland and when it became too difficult for us to her Uncle Meir, and rather than give I love being home. convey concepts. When my husband me an anglicized version of Meir, she • Israel is the home of the Jewish began getting partial Sabbaticals preferred the Hebrew name Meira — people. For nearly 2,000 years, we (Pesach to Rosh Hashanah), we spent not a common name for an American were denied access to our home, them in Yerushalayim, learning Torah Jewish girl when I was a child. but that changed in 1948. and experiencing as much of Israel • My husband wanted to. At Maimonides School in , as we could. This certainly impacted • I was raised in a Modern founded by Rav Soloveitchik, Hebrew profoundly on our children. We even Orthodox, Zionist home, but my language was emphasized. I had an showed them the graves we bought schooling was predominantly amazing Israeli Hebrew teacher, Mar for ourselves for after 120, in Eretz Yeshivish. Because most of my Lamdan (that was really his name!), HaChaim in Bet Shemesh. It came friends were Yeshivish and I had and as a result learned to be fairly with a lesson from my husband that opted to go to a Zionist yeshiva fluent in Hebrew. In those days, we are now able to keep by shemita high school, I needed to figure out college students spent their junior owning (land) in Israel and not karka where I stood. As a high-schooler, year in Israel. My year came out right working it during the year. shemita Modern Orthodox and Yeshivish after the Six-Day War in 1967. It was Eight of our nine children attended seemed like opposite sides of not an easy decision for my parents Yeshiva University, Stern College the spectrum. I felt neither here to decide to allow me to go to Israel or the Yeshiva University S. Daniel nor there. My parents let me

I would like to thank my husband, Rabbi Edward Davis for his collaboration on this article. 7 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 visit Israel during winter break purposefully recorded Terach’s death for their out-of-Israel family to be in of eleventh grade. Something before Avraham “made Aliyah.” In contact with each other. clicked while I was in Israel and I actuality, Avraham’s father was still Recently, my dear father, Mr. Erwin just knew that it is where I belong. alive when Avraham left Charan Katz, a”h passed away. The funeral A huge motivating factor for me to move to Canaan. Hashem told service was in Brookline, MA. Our was that two of my siblings already Avraham that He exempted Avraham children and older grandchildren in resided in Israel. from the mitzvah of , kibbud av va’em Israel — who had each contributed • . My husband and I, each, honoring one’s parents, in order Tzionut some thoughts to be included in separately and together, wanted to to make aliyah. In the Midrash, the hespedim (eulogies) — gathered make aliya from a young age. We Hashem says “I exempt no one else together. Via the funeral home’s both believe that Jews belong in from this duty.” This is a powerful high quality webcast, they viewed it Israel and wanted to raise our midrash because of its application to together and felt as if they were at the family there - we wanted to “come the modern situation. In our family funeral. home.” situation, we as parents are very pleased with our childrens’ decision Traveling to Israel is expensive, time- Distance Makes the Heart… to make aliyah, yet we are aware of the consuming and draining. It makes it possible Halachic issue when these much harder to visit a child to help None of our children live closer than two mitzvot conflict. out for a birth or a crisis or while a 1,100 miles to us. Four of them have husband is in army reserve duty. It A big challenge of having family made aliyah. Akiva and Sara and is difficult for us not to be able to be divided between two continents is family and Elana and Oren Wener and there when needed, but our children the pain of physical separation for family live in . Batsheva have grown stronger as a result and are long periods of time, difficulty in and Gilad Adamit and family live there for each other in every way. in Neve Tzuf and Ariella is in Givat sharing in each other’s simchas, and Shmuel. Our other five children and for children and grandchildren to Two of our daughters were married their families are in the northeastern spend time with each other. Phone around Chanukah 2013. The — Dani and Chaya in communication can be hampered weddings were planned to be ten days Edison, NJ, Tamar and Allan Galper by the big difference in time zones. apart in New York and , in Brookline, MA, Shoshana and My husband and I feel bishvili nivra so everyone from Israel could be Marc Lerman in Riverdale, NY, Shira WhatsApp (WhatsApp was created present at both simchas. Only and Jesse Mandell in for me), which enables our entire Hashem knows when that will happen and Rena and Gabi Wittlin in Kew family, wherever they are, to share again. Gardens Hills, NY. texts, news, pictures and videos at any given moment — a treasured gift. The Challenges One of our mechutanim jokes with With other audio-visual technology us about our children making aliyah: options, i.e. Skype, Facetime, Google The ,Brachot 5a, quotes Rabbi “We taught them so many things, why Hangouts, we can “visit” and “see” Shimon bar Yochai: is this what they had to listen to?” רבי שמעון בן יוחאי אומר: שלש מתנות .each other in real time. A true bracha טובות נתן הקדוש ברוך הוא לישראל, וכולן There is a midrash in the beginning For me, this reinforces the much לא נתנן אלא על - ידי יסורין. אלו הן: תורה of Lech L’chah (Breishit Rabbah greater sacrifice of people who made וארץ ישראל והעולם הבא. which states that Hashem aliyah years ago and the difficulty (39:7 R. Shimon b. Yochai says: Hashem gave three precious gifts to Israel – Torah, One of our mechutanim jokes with us about Eretz Yisrael and the World to Come. our children making aliyah: “We taught All three were given with struggles and challenges. them so many things, why is this what they Our family is experiencing the struggles had to listen to?” and challenges of Eretz Yisrael.

8 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 Our children’s perspectives on their — someone who is clearly not If my “American-ness” makes me biggest challenges of living in Israel: a native Israeli. Whatever the conspicuous, so be it – there are • As a family, a challenge is finding giveaway might be, my subtle worse things I could be. • affordable housing (to purchase a yet present accent, my Western/ A teenage grandchild’s home). We currently live in a place religious fashion sense, my ethnic perspective: Personally, my a little more affordable due to look, my gentle and patient biggest challenge here in Israel our surrounding “cousins.” Many mannerisms, most is the language. Even after eight of the people in the neighboring eventually pick up that I was not years in Israel, I still struggle so Arab villages do not like us born and bred in Israel. It might much in school and it’s mostly sound like a petty challenge, but because I have a barrier that I (putting thatvery mildly) and make life a bit more complicated. here are some less-than-desired cannot break down when it comes Making smart decisions (taking reactions I have gotten when to Hebrew. people realize I am American: security measures, being careful No Sundays (or Sheni Shel 1. The price for whatever I wanted where you drive...) and having real Galuyot, as we now refer to Sunday) to buy went up because American faith are a must. We are blessed that our children look equals wealthy in their eyes. • Getting used to a 6-day work for every opportunity to together. 2. Marriage proposals, because week. Really miss those Sundays! In Israel this is particularly daunting American means rich. 3. An • Missing family members who are since there are no Sundays off and the not with us. Israeli will speak to me in broken children go to school six days a week. • Lower salaries. English. Annoying, because I They really appreciate Chol Hamoed • Being far away from our family in learned Hebrew and now the and summer vacations when they have America is the biggest challenge conversation will be much longer, a block of days with no school. I believe we face on an emotional because I can’t understand the Financial Struggles level. There are hardships we broken English. My frustration translates into: I work hard on Many olim take a big cut in salary encounter now and then with to live in Israel. Living on an Israeli the language or not having an integrating into your society – so why can’t you let me blend in salary is not so easy. Real estate “in” or the protektzia that Israelis prices in prime areas are exorbitant. have. We’re learning things along instead of pointing me out as a foreigner. 4. And finally the most Although some of our children in with our kids as they experience Israel work for less pay than they new things we’ve never done — common reaction: “You’re from America? Why on earth did you received in the U.S., they enjoy and bagruyot, tzav rishon from the appreciate their quality of life. army, and so forth — so we can’t move here? Are you crazy?” I provide the support Israeli parents don’t respond to this anymore, Healthcare System might be able to provide to their because if someone is asking this, Our children have, for the most part, kids. But overall, I believe the they don’t respect your decisions done well with their various health- biggest challenge proves to be the in life and will not respect your care providers in the Israeli socialized emotional one of being apart from response. The bright side: 1. medicine system, Baruch Hashem. our families who live far away. Being American has the advantage Occasionally, one needs to wait a • Adapting to the new culture, of knowing English which is a long time for a referral to a doctor or education system and healthcare necessity to get into most lucrative specialist. Our mentality for medical system. Language is also a big fields in Israel. 2. American treatment is: if you need it, get it. challenge for some of us. But the mannerisms may be perceived as Sometimes we have encouraged the real killer here is Sunday, or the “soft” and “very un-Israeli”, yet children to go to a private doctor lack thereof. Saturday night is a are beneficial to Israeli society. I at our expense so that they can be school night, which is something am often complimented on my attended to in a timely manner. We we may never come to terms with. patience and gentle manner in have occasionally called on the kind • Being conspicuous as an dealing with people. 3. Native physicians in our shul, who know our Israelis are conspicuous at times. American or “olah chadashah” children, to consult about certain

9 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 situations. Baruch Hashem, everyone other. Very scary. is well. We finished our conversations with Do you Know Where your Children the neighbors, keeping their little kids Are? occupied and happy and returned to our Safety and security are on every apt. So much for a ceasefire … I can’t parent’s mind, and especially for those go to the grocery store because I don’t with children living in Israel. Our wanna be outside so I’m gonna order children have shared many emotional online and have them deliver straight to and frightening incidents of proximity my door … At times like this a lot of to terrorist activity — from the emuna (faith) and tefilla (prayer) are in rockets in the past few years, crashes order. at the Jerusalem light rail stations, to Love you both very much, being stoned on the road. There is Batsheva no dearth of things to “worry” about. Here is an emotionally-draining Here is an email we received in the fall WhatsApp message we received from of 2011, during Gaza rocket barrages, Ariella this past summer: from our newly-married daughter Just had my first siren that I had to when they moved to Beersheva. pull the car over, get out and lie on the Eema and Abba, burning hot ground with my hands on Here is an update on what’s going on my head praying that the debris from here. the extremely close and very loud rocket Israelis do for one another — opening Gilad came back to Beersheva last night explosion weren’t gonna kill me. I may their homes to those living in war because classes resumed at the university have cried and said a perek of tehillim. or rocket zones, bringing goodies to today. I told him I wasn’t returning That was officially the worst siren I’ve the soldiers manning the Iron Dome until there were at least 2 days of quiet. ever experienced seemingly because I installations near them and sending This afternoon I got on a bus to come knew my hands weren’t gonna protect supplies to the soldiers on the front. to Beersheva. I walked into our apt at me from anything! This past summer, our 15-year-old about 6:20. At 6:43, just 20 minutes I remember how alarmed I was when granddaughter ran a one-day program later, a loud siren starts blaring (I had our two sons were at YU in the 1990s in Hashmonaim for residents and to open the window to make sure for a and reported on the dangers of the merchants from the South, bussing second cuz I have major paranoia and neighborhood at that time. Incidents them in to provide respite from think a car revving its engine is a siren). happen in other places occasionally, rockets and an opportunity to sell I panicked cuz I realized Gilad was but in Israel, there is an all-too-steady their wares. biking home and I didn’t know where he diet of it. was. That second I heard the stairwell Army Service door close. Gilad had just made it back Bottom line: trust in Hashem. Then there’s the army: children to our building, threw his bike to the side in miluim (reserve duty) leaving and ran upstairs to get me to run into Only in Eretz Yisrael their families for several weeks and the stairwell (since the bomb shelter is grandchildren going into the IDF. This too far). We stood there with a bunch Chesed has certainly spurred me to increase of our neighbors and listened to a lot of In Israel, chesed can be found in my emunah and bitachon in Hashem noise which we found out afterwards was abundance everywhere. The country – and especially my davening. I try the Iron Dome- which had successfully itself is a shining example to the world not to worry, and to put all my trust in intercepted one of the rockets, but had as a first responder to world calamities Hashem. such as Haiti and the Tsunami — as missed the other. The noise was the Here We Go Again well as within Israel during time of sound of the interception of one rocket Our connection to Eretz Yisrael grows crises. Our children are a part of what and the landing and exploding of the stronger as we visit more frequently

10 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 than we used to — so we can spend children made aliyah, my husband was or your family have accrued as a result time with our family and participate consulted about appropriating assets of of living in Israel? in the life-cycle events of our Israeli the defunct Glenwood Jewish Center • We live in Israel — that alone is children and grandchildren. We in to some in Israel. the greatest thing. We made it. schlep the maximum amount of He encouraged this and was pleasantly We’ve returned to our homeland allowed weight in our luggage, trying surprised to find the shul where our where we believe we belong. Of to fill all the requests for the American children daven in Hashmonaim bearing course, finding good friends and products and other items they request. that name. We enjoy the community support systems are important, One of my friends has all her children very much when we are there. It’s too, and thank God we’ve found living in Israel. She goes loaded socially comfortable as there are a large those as well. The biggest benefits with stuff and often asks people to percentage of Anglos there — and we are that our children are growing take something small for her. When know many of them from various parts up here, living and loving the land, her children pressure her to move of our lives. knowing our history, being proud to Israel, she responds, “And who is to be Jewish. going to send you all the stuff you In Retrospect • A grandchild’s response: One good want/need from America?” thing about living in Israel is the Comments from our children about freedom. Teenagers in Israel have Anglo Connections any regrets related to their aliyah: a lot more freedom than teenagers The informal Anglo support groups • The only regret I have is not doing in America have. Here in Israel, my are helpful for our children. Our any National Service. I would friends and I can go out almost at daughter, Ariella, lives in Givat have loved to do sheirut le’umi, any time we want without an adult Shmuel where the singles invite but I came with the American accompanying us. We can take a each other over for meals, fix each mentality of going straight to bus from city to city without any other up and run some activities for university after high school which kind of safety threat. themselves. Our married children is what I did. • Cheaper tuition. Living on a dati have mostly English-speaking • Regrets: that we didn’t come yishuv where the kids run around couples as friends. The cultural sooner when real estate prices free on Shabbat with no worries. divide is palpable but not always were more reasonable. • Israel is still in the Pre-Amber insurmountable. • No regrets – I don’t see how Alert Age. Children are able to Torat Eretz Yisrael doing things differently could be much more independent in this environment which benefits We see our children being very have or would have changed both their development and their connected to the Land of Israel and anything. Maybe coming sooner, quality of life. Religiously, there the mitzvot related to living in Eretz but we did okay. • are obvious benefits to living in a Yisrael - teruma, maaser, shemita, No regrets. • Jewish country. orla and more, learning the Torah A minor regret that I did not • I love that Hebrew, the and historical connections to where do a second year of National loshon , is the “mother tongue” they live and to places all over the Service… it would have been hakodesh here. It makes Torah and all country. Our grandchildren are active an excellent opportunity to our rabbinic commentary and members of Bnei Akiva with the continue improving my Hebrew literature so accessible and that motto –Torah Ve’Avodah. before beginning university. I think many American olim feel much easier to learn. I love that Hashmonaim pressured to start university as my kids will grow up with a leg up Almost all of our grandchildren in soon as possible because of their in terms of Torah learning. Israel live in Hashmonaim. Our American mentality, when it is not • I met my wonderful husband special connection to there is two- the reality or mentality of Israelis. here in Israel where we live in fold. First, our daughter-in-law Sara’s Final question to our children: What a completely religious yishuv grandparents were pioneers of that do you like best about living in Israel without having to worry about yishuv (settlement). Second, before our and what are the biggest benefits you cars on Shabbat, etc. An amazing

11 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 ותקרבנה בנות צלפחד וגו' גדולה להן וגדולה .life with incredible people לאביהן גדולה למכיר וגדולה ליוסף שכך יצאו Israel is our home – the home of • ממנו נשים, חכמות וצדקניות. the Jewish People. Our roots are במדבר רבה, פרשת פנחס פרשה כא buried deep here and our blood is splattered all over this Land — The daughters of Tzelafchad approached the Land where our Forefathers … it brought greatness to them and are buried and the home of our greatness to their ancestors, Machir and Holy Sites. This Land has infused Yosef because these wise righteous women me with a passion and love for came from them. the Jewish People that I never felt Bamidbar Rabbah, Pinchas no. 21 before. In the Torah narrative in Parashat Concluding Thoughts Shelach, the daughters of Tzelafchad demonstrated tremendous love for Bikitzur, as they say in Israel, we are Eretz Yisrael by requesting to inherit very proud of how all our children their father’s land. The laws of how have adapted to half the family being women inherit land were included in across the world, as painful as that the Torah based on their merit. The separation has been for some. Baruch Midrash states that their request to Hashem for Nefesh B’Nefesh under possess their father’s portion of land the leadership of Rabbi Josh Fass to in Israel, brought greatness to their whom we are deeply grateful. They ancestors, Machir and Yosef. Similarly, have effectively eliminated the massive our children have brought great pride governmental bureaucratic barrier to to us through demonstrating their love making aliyah and transformed it into for Eretz Yisrael. a user-friendly (formerly an unknown ּכֹה אָמַרה’ קֹול ּבְרָ מָ ה ענִׁשְמָ נְהִי ּבְכִ י concept in Israel) experience. They are תַמְרּורִיםרָחֵל מְבַּכָה עַלּבָ נֶיהָמֵאֲ נָה לְהִ ּנָחֵ ם a real support group for olim, long after עַלּבָ נֶיהָ ּכִי אֵ ינֶּנּו: ּכֹה אָמַרה’ מִ נְעִי קֹולְֵך מִּבֶכִ י the actual aliyah. וְעֵ ינַיְִך מִּדִמְעָה ּכִ י יֵׁש שָ ֹכָרלִפְעֻּלָתֵ ְך נְאֻ ם ה’ וְׁשָבּו מֵאֶרֶ ץ אֹויֵב: וְיֵׁשּתִקְ וָה לְאַחֲרִיתֵ ְך נְאֻ ם ה’ We are very thankful that Hashem וְׁשָבּו בָ נִים לִגְבּולָ ם: has created technology to keep ירמיהו לא:יד-טז ,us very connected. With humor patience and great emunah and bitachon Bahashem we are navigating Thus said the Lord: A voice is heard the challenges together. in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her The sidebar features a WhatsApp children; she refuses to be comforted for family conversation on Asara her children, because they are not. Thus B’Tevet, which marks the date of said the Lord: Refrain thy voice from the first child in our family to make weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for aliya and live far away. I think this thy work shall be rewarded, said the give and take aptly describes the Lord; and they shall come back from sad emotions of separation and the the land of the enemy. And there is hope humor, joy, pride, love and idealism for thy future, said the LORD; and thy of our family in Israel and America. children shall return to their own border. We are very proud of our children’s Jeremiah 31:14-16 decision to live in Eretz Yisrael, even with the challenges that result from their aliyah.

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he centrality of the Land of Israel in the thought of the Ramban is self-evident. Most Rabbi Kenneth Schiowitz Tnotably are the facts that he counts Rabbi, Congregation Shaare Tefillah, Teaneck, NJ the mitzvah to live in Israel in his Book Faculty, Ramaz Upper School, New York, NY of Mitzvot, as well as the fact that he personally moved from Spain to Israel Coordinator of www.hschinuch.org, a project of the Yeshiva towards the end of his life, where he University Institute for University-School Partnership founded the “Ramban Shul” in the 13th Century. Maimonides does not consider “yishuv Eretz Yisrael,” and impossible for them. This lack of the incredible capacity and potential settling Israel to be one of the 613 faith, and self-doubt in their abilities that Man possesses to improve God’s mitzvot in his Book of Mitzvot, while even with the help of God was the world. In direct response to the fear the Ramban argues that this is a heart of their failure. of the spies, God counters with the mistaken omission. There has been Rav Soloveitchik (as cited in the mitzvah of challah to emphasize the abilities that they indeed had, though much speculation as to the rationale introduction to Shiurei HaRav on they did not realize it. of the Rambam, but the Ramban’s Masechet Challah) noted that the inclusion clearly demonstrates the mitzvah of hafrashat challah,tithing If we will consider this thought centrality of the Land of Israel in dough, is introduced at the end of the in light of other comments of the his halachic thought. In this essay, I parsha of , subsequent to the Ramban about the sanctity of the would like to explore more precisely account of the Meraglim, while the Land of Israel, we can achieve an even how the Ramban defines this aspect other agricultural laws of terumah and deeper insight into the mistake of of Jewish religious life. What exactly maaser tithes are taught at the end the Meraglim and the response of the is the religious meaning of the Land of of Korach, immediately preceding Torah. Israel and the experience of living in the story of the Meraglim. Rav that land? I believe that a consistent Soloveitchik suggested that this Torat HaAretz and Torat approach can be developed by looking division can be explained based on the Chutz LaAretz at a series of passages in his writings comments of the Ramban. Terumah on the Torah. and maaser reflect the sanctity The Ramban (Bereishit 26:5 and that is inherent in the land. This Devarim 11:18) asserts that the The Meraglim sanctity is manifest in the fact that entire Torah was given to be fulfilled immediately after the produce is specifically in the Land of Israel. While In the episode of the Meraglim, grown it has a halachic status that it is true that only agricultural mitzvot the sin of the spies, the Ramban triggers special mitzvot. Challah, are specific to the Land of Israel and demonstrates that everything about however, is a mitzvah that is initiated “chovot haguf,” mitzvot that depend on the report of the spies was honest and only after a human being takes the the person (not the land) apply even accurate, and conformed to Moshe’s raw materials produced by the outside of Israel, in truth all mitzvot instructions for them. Their sole sin earth and actively processes them were designed specifically for the Land was the use of the the word “efes” into something much greater. Only of Israel. The Ramban dramatically (13:28), which indicated that the after the wheat is ground, sifted and suggests that the ultimate purpose of possibility of the Jewish conquer of kneaded into dough does this mitzvah the mitzvot that we do outside of Israel the Land of Israel was out of reach take effect. ThusChallah represents is merely to remember as practice, so

13 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Pesach 5775 that the Jewish People will remember reconciles their commitment to Meraglim Revisited these mitzvot when we ultimately the mitzvot with seemingly serious return to Israel. Since the Jewish violations, such as Yaakov who Based on this understanding, we can People were destined to be sent into was married to two sisters until he add a new layer of understanding of exile, the Torah sought to ensure the returned to Israel.] the sin of the Meraglim. The spies continuation of our traditions through testified to the greatness of the Land, This concept sheds light on a the generations. If would be but claimed that the Jewish People mitzvot problematic verse that the Ramban limited to the Land of Israel, then they would be unable to conquer it. It himself analyzes. In Sefer Vayikra would be long forgotten by the time of is possible that they did not merely (18:25) the Torah reminds us to our return from our long exiles. The underestimate their military ability; comply with all of the commandments prophet Yirmiyahu (31:20) instructed perhaps they underestimated their and threatens that if we fail to comply the Jewish People to make signs on spiritual worthiness. Possibly they with the mitzvot then the Land will the roads as we leave Israel that will understood these lessons of the “spit us out into exile.” The Ramban point towards our return to Israel. The Torah (Vayikra 18:25, according to notes that in context, the threat in this Ramban quotes the Midrash that the Ramban) and realized that if they verse in linked to non-agricultural laws says the same of in exile: we would not properly comply with the mitzvot that are seemingly unrelated to the must perform them in exile so that mitzvot they would be spat out. They Land of Israel. In particular, the Torah we will remember them upon our feared that they would not be worthy is referring to the arayot, forbidden return. We must pave the road to our of inheriting the land and thus would sexual relationships. Why then will redemption even in the midst of our lose their battles. According to the the Land of Israel spit out the violators exile, from both a spiritual and physical interpretation of Rav Soloveitchik, of these mitzvot? This sin is equally perspective. God responded with the mitzva of wrong in all lands. challah. This mitzva, that revolves In the same vein, the Ramban The Ramban responds that the Land around human innovation, does not (Vayikra 18:25) accepts the midrashic of Israel is particularly sensitive merely symbolize the physical and view that the Avot fulfilled themitzvot to Godliness and sanctity. God is military potential of the new fledgling of the Torah even though it was not intimately connected to the Land Jewish army; the mitzva of challah also yet given. Avraham was taught the of Israel and directly guides its represents the spiritual potential that mitzvot of the Torah by God and destiny. In respect to the other lands this new nation possessed. Man will fulfilled them along with his children of the world, God leaves a distance not only follow the mitzvot that exist, and grandchildren. They voluntarily between Himself and Man and, but will create opportunities for more performed the mitzvot because therefore, tolerates sin. The elevated mitzvot and new challenges that will they understood the incredible sanctity of the Land of Israel makes continue to elevate us through our spiritual opportunity that the mitzvot sin intolerable and the Land literally spiritual journey. We must certainly offered. However, the Ramban spits out those who defile it through engage in the challenge and not seek believes that this was limited to the sin. This is especially logical in light to avoid the spiritual challenges out time that they were in the Land of the previous thesis of the Ramban of our fear. We will take the “risk” of a of Israel, where the mitzvot were that all of the mitzvot were designed spiritual life in the Land of Israel even ultimately designed to be kept. It was uniquely for the Land of Israel. The though it can threaten to spit us out, unnecessary for them to volunteer Torah and the Land of Israel were because if we succeed, it will elevate us to practice their mitzvot while in designed for one another and the to unimaginable heights. exile. That was only needed for the Land cannot tolerate the defilement of nation while in actual exile. [This the mitzvot of the Torah.

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