It's Forbidden to Leave Israel
Rabbi Eliezer Berland's remarks from July 9, 2019. ==== IT'S FORBIDDEN TO LEAVE ISRAEL EVEN FOR A MINUTE Translated from a shiur given by Rabbi Eliezer Berland, the night of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5779 ITāS FORBIDDEN TO LEAVE AND GO TO CHUTZ LāARETZ (OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL) FOR EVEN A SINGLE SECOND. Every second that a person is in chul, he is transgressing an issur dāoraita (something forbidden directly from the Torah.) And you will not return by the path that you came from, not to return to look at Mitzrayim (Egypt) [https://ravberland.com/revealing-emuna-point-leaving-egypt/]. Everything is called āMitzrayimā! And itās an issur dāoraita, every second that is spent in chul. > No prayer is accepted [there], no Torah ascends there. A person prays ā they donāt hear him. And so, this is why there was a shoah, because people lost their yearning to make aliya to Eretz Yisrael. UP UNTIL THE POINT WHERE THEY STILL HAD THIS YEARNING, THEIR PRAYERS STILL ASCENDED. But the day when they said, āitās good for me here, itās actually amazing for me, here,ā ā as itās written in the Gemara, Tractate Shabbat 147b, about the 10 Tribes. [The 10 Tribes] received places that were better than Eretz Yisrael, so they didnāt want to return. Yirmiyahu went to bring them back, but they received such wonderful, good locations [to live in] that they said, weāre arenāt coming back. If they donāt return, there is no olam haba (world to come). THEY LOST EVERYTHING. From the Shivivei Or Newsletter, #101 ==== Rabbi Berland's Prayer to Make Aliya Easily [https://ravberland.com/you-asked-rabbi-berland-answered-brand-new-prayer-to-make-aliya-easily/]