Reply To: Anti-Zionists Criticized in Matzav Inbox

HaKatan said:

“There is zero source for Zionism in the Torah, as mentioned.”

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MY RESPONSE:

What was the FIRST commandment that G*D gave to Avraham Avinu?

It was not kashruth, is was not Shabbos and it was not davening.

The FIRST commandment that G*D gave to Avraham Avinu
was leaving the place where he was born,
and MOVING TO ERETZ YISRAEL.

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Moshe Rabbeinu, in his final days, begged G*D,
many times, to be permitted to enter Eretz Yisrael.

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The 6th book of Tanach — Sefer Yehoshua — is mostly about
the Jewish conquest of Eretz Yisrael, as G*D commanded them.

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Ben Zion Sobel, the Feldheim translator of the Concise Book of Mitzvot
(written by the Chafetz Chaim) has added an appendix with the
commandments which can only be done in the land of Israel.

He writes that he did this after consulting with the Steipler Gaon
(Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky) based on a 1968 list from Torah Vodaath.

He counts 26 commandments which can only be done
in the land of Israel, in our times.

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Our Sages (tractate Avot, chapter 4, paragraph 22) teach us that:

�one hour of repentance and good deeds in this world
is better than the entire World-to-Come.�

Rabbi Moshe Sofer (born in 1762 CE & died in 1839 CE) taught this:

�This statement refers only to the Land of Israel, but not to unclean lands.�

SOURCE: The Chasam Sofer (chapter 32, page 227) by Yaakov Dovid Shulman,
year 1992 CE, C.I.S. Publishers, Lakewood, New Jersey (732) 905-3000
ISBN (soft cover): 1-56062-118-4.

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Rabbi Nachman of Breslov said this in
Sefer HaMidot, chapter mamon [money], paragraph 33:

Donating maaser only helps a Jew to become wealthy in the Land of Israel.

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There are many more Torah sources I could quote,
but I do not have enough patience to list them now.