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AddReply(241847,"Oshrat in Yesha","Gary","Monterey, CA","10/24/07","I\'ve been accused of that before with comments on other articles.  I\'m not on a missionary journey.  I come to this site to support the Jews and God\'s plan for them.  I do have great knowledge of the Prophets, have study their writings for many years, and feel that God\'s call to the Jews to return back to the Land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has His purpose.  This is as big of an event as the parting of the Red Sea, God\'s voice spoken to the tribes of Israel at Sinai, the ten commandments given by God\'s hand, and the Conquest.  This is the first main world event of the Jews by God\'s Decree since the Macabees some 2,300 years ago.  I\'m here to support the Jews, since the world has unending hatred of the Jews.  I\'m not here for any other reason.   ");
AddReply(241477,"in the end","hanina","","10/22/07","even in the very end,\nwhen there is only smoke, debris, rubble and burning embers,\nhating each other is wrong.\nIt\'s gone on way too long, all over Israel.\nWhen I was growing up, kids used to say to new olim, my abba says you should go home, as they threw rocks at us, chased us on lonely dirt roads, or used physcial force to frighten us.\nAnd now, as my oldest travels the country, she says the words ring in her ears like a cult mentality.\nAnd she is disgusted.\nWake up Israel,\ncleanse yourselves\nbecause your hate is taking all of us down.\nHashem is in control and everything that happens is his doing.\nHe checks up on us daily,\nhe is here, just like he is there with you in israel.\nno worshipping idols here.\nidols are preconceived notions of hatred, that people nuture like a disease until the cure is only destruction.  \ndo you really think it gives Hashem joy to hear such nonesense?");
AddReply(241026,"Home in Shiloh!","Hillel","Shiloh","10/21/07","We joined Batya and Yisroel in Shiloh Erev Yom Kippur. Although we spent 10 months in Har Nof, Jerusalem, we only started to really live 27 days ago. There is no life in Chutz, it is just a hint of life. Do you realize that even our brothers who are not yet observant acquire a mitzvah with each 4 steps that they take in E.Y.? Just think, the \'mundane\' tasks of going to the grocery store, doing laundry or commuting to work have the added Kiddusha of being performed in the land that G-D promised our Father Avraham.\nDon\'t worry about housing there is plenty available. HaShem is just waiting for you to come home. He has allowed an unprecedented wave of building to go one all over Eretz Yisroel. He is just waiting for you to come home so that he can turn over the keys. \nWrite me at hillel.leib@gmail.com");
AddReply(240971,"Come home!","Oshrat","Yesha","10/21/07","To Gary of Monterey, #4: While you wish us well, your words sound like missionary language. ");
AddReply(240936,"Lech-Lecha","Shulamit","Jerusalem","10/20/07","The majority of the Jews of the world, sad to say, prefer to assimilate away rather than make aliyah, or do anything Jewish, for that matter. Also, it really hurts me to see the \"frum\" Jews (who say they believe in Torah), preferring to live in the Galut (their Golden Ghettoes), rather than living in Eretz Yisroel.");
AddReply(240935,"Lech Lecha","Tzvia","West Bank settlement!","10/20/07","We made aliyah in 1978 and lived for awhile in a small apartment in an absorption center. A man who lived near us never missed an opportunity to tell us how lucky we were, because his parents had arrived many years before from Yemen and lived in a ma\'abara in a tent which in the winters sat in the cold, wet mud, exposed to rain,etc.etc. He kept on telling us this, until one day I said to him:Baruch Hashem that there\'s been progress since them. Do you want me to live in a tent today when everyone else lives in an apartment?? He never mentioned the subject to me again after I finally answered him back!!!");
AddReply(240932,"Come home!","Miriam","Yesha","10/20/07","Thanks for this short, but excellent article. I made aliyah in 1969, and so, enjoyed your list of \"memories\". I also remember that if we bought a new item of clothing, about half the country bought the exact same thing, as there wasn\'t much variety. I also remember having to learn to diaper my babies in cloth diapers without safety pins-all kinds of intricate folding. When I informed my Israeli friends that in the States we closed diapers with safety pins, they laughed and said \"How barbaric!\".");
AddReply(240830,"Actually, things will not get better...","mike","OIF","10/19/07","...until the Jews LEAVE the IDF.  The IDF is the ISRAELI army.  It is not the JEWISH army.  It is a gang of pogromschiks that exists to give cover to Moslem terrorists.  In recent years, the IDF has raped, murdered, beaten and expelled Jews, desecrated schuls and destroyed Jewish homes.  No Jew should wear an IDF uniform.  Only when the Jews form their own army and demand their own country will things get better.");
AddReply(240828,"Betya & Tamar","Gary","Monterey, CA","10/19/07","Your words are from the heart of God.  God has sent you back to the Land of your Fathers to set up the Annointed One to come.  May more Jews see God\'s purpose for them in these Last Days.");
AddReply(240749,"Avraham didn;t have it so good in the beginng either!","Risa","Rehovot","10/19/07","Look at the story. Avraham comes to Cana\'an and is faced with famine (twice) and war and water disputes. Hashem didn\'t lead him back to the Gardern of Eden. \nIt didn\'t happen then and it\'s not gonna happen now. \nNo, come here because it\'s the right thing to do. Period. ");
AddReply(240743,"Qualified Poskenim","Chava G.","Kiryat Moshe, Yerushalayim","10/19/07","Put that way, a lot of galut rabbis are probably not qualified to posken on a whole lot, much less aliyah. I remember that I was told that diaspora Jews keep about 20% of the Torah at most - as I\'m becoming aware as I dwell here in Israel. I hope people, particularly these rabbis, will listen, rather than become defensive.\n\nThanks for the incisive argument!");
AddReply(240701,"yes, come and join us","tamar","yonah","10/19/07","We all know that the future of the Jewish People is not going to be in the EXILE, but in Israel.  G-d said this is our home, and He wants us to want to come home, and He wants us to YEARN to be close to Him and he wants us to YEARN to build the Third Temple, because we WANT to be close to him.  Yet, some of us stay in the Exile because it is so comfortable.  \nBrothers and sisters, listen to us.  Listen to Batya Medad and Tzvi Fishman and come home and join us here.  We might already have the Third Temple and a REAL Jewish state with Moshaich, if you would just show Hashem you desired it and were willing not to just mouth prayers, but follow with your feet and your hearts!  ");

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