22 April 2022 Query to Ask A Rabbi Aish Torah:
Query about a pattern among galat Jewish communites....which are very old communities...{Jews from Yemen and Ethiopia settled there about the time of King Solomon..the Jews of Iraq about the time of the Prophet Erza] yet with little exceptions..a pattern develops...first the Jews are accused of being "different" in the Galat host country..soon they are accused of terrible crimes against non-jews...massacres and expulsations over the centuries....until a rement is left...Yet even when it becomes painfully oblivious that the only hope for survival is to go up to Israel...[some survivors have nothing but a Torah scroll and the clothes on their backs]..yet what is puzzeling is this...that even when the obvious fate of a galat community is destruction...there are those who refuse to go up to Israel...feeling that their residence and "services" to their galat country will save them...now the Torah message is to choose life...yet refusing to go up will not result in living....question is there an answear in the Torah about why those choose this course of action?
24 April 2002 receieved the following answear:
Dear
Thank you for your question. It is not clear from the Torah exactly why this has happened many times in our history but it is certainly well precedented all the way back to the days of the Babylonian exile when the majority of the Jewish People did not return when able. The bottom line is our history is replete with opportunities and missed opportunities and certainly the learning and fixing that is still necessary is that we must come home to our homeland when the opportunity presents itself.
With blessings from Jerusalem,
Rabbi Yoni Miller
Aish.com
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Query about a pattern among galat Jewish communites....which are very old communities...{Jews from Yemen and Ethiopia settled there about the time of King Solomon..the Jews of Iraq about the time of the Prophet Erza] yet with little exceptions..a pattern develops...first the Jews are accused of being "different" in the Galat host country..soon they are accused of terrible crimes against non-jews...massacres and expulsations over the centuries....until a rement is left...Yet even when it becomes painfully oblivious that the only hope for survival is to go up to Israel...[some survivors have nothing but a Torah scroll and the clothes on their backs]..yet what is puzzeling is this...that even when the obvious fate of a galat community is destruction...there are those who refuse to go up to Israel...feeling that their residence and "services" to their galat country will save them...now the Torah message is to choose life...yet refusing to go up will not result in living....question is there an answear in the Torah about why those choose this course of action?
24 April 2002 receieved the following answear:
Dear
Thank you for your question. It is not clear from the Torah exactly why this has happened many times in our history but it is certainly well precedented all the way back to the days of the Babylonian exile when the majority of the Jewish People did not return when able. The bottom line is our history is replete with opportunities and missed opportunities and certainly the learning and fixing that is still necessary is that we must come home to our homeland when the opportunity presents itself.
With blessings from Jerusalem,
Rabbi Yoni Miller
Aish.com
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