הרב אליהו בייפוס: בין זמנים כהלכה – החששות המצויים למכשול
Reprinted with assumed permission.
Reprinted with assumed permission.
The Rebbe calmly but directly asks (his own Chassidim): Why don’t you come to Eretz Yisrael?
And the Ma’amar Chazal he has in mind for this inauguration of a religious school in Chutz La’aretz (under his own auspices!) is this one, Bereishis Rabba 39:8:
“אלין במדבר סלה”‘ מוטב ללון במדברות של א”י ולא ללון בפלטריות של חוצה לארץ.
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“Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”