The Reason for Stalling Aliyah


If we would like to know the motivation of those who, throughout the generations, stubbornly remain outside the Land or write against the settlement of the Land, it is found in the Zohar (Vayechi, page 225a):

For the sacred air and the holy spirit has been removed from them, and they breathe the air and ambience of the impure "other side" outside the Land.


And if this is said about the holy Amoraim, 11 then how much more so is this true in our own day.  And so wrote the pious Rabbi Y. Alkalai: 12

The serpent placed in the hearts of the Sages of Israel the idea that it is forbidden to speak about the Redemption.  They feel that the verse "Don’t let Hashem be silent [about the return to Zion]" 13 was said only to the Ministering Angels, and that the Ingathering of the Exiles will happen of its own accord, without our arousal. This extends the Exile.

  1. 11.Talmudic Sages, circa 200-500 C.E.

  2. 12.19th century C.E., Sefer HaChaim, page 2; see there at length.

  3. 13.Isaiah 62, 7




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