Those who fear that their children will go OTD if they Make Aliyah Are Following the Meraglim

I have been listening to a lot of podcasts lately while driving, and what I heard disturbed me immensely!

On December 21, 2025, I posted an interview between Rabbi Shoff and Rabbi Michal Weichbrod on the topic "Should Jews leave America?' 

One of Shoff's argument was that there is a good chance of "your children going off the derech if you make Aliyah"

Another argument that people have "If my child enlists in the army, there is a good chance his spirituality will get destroyed."

I am not in any way belittling their concerns, but this was exactly בדיוק what the meraglim were arguing!

They argued that HKB"H Himself stated that when they will enter Eretz Yisrael, they will certainly, 100% worship Avoda Zara!

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יהֹ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה הִנְּךָ֥ שֹׁכֵ֖ב עִם־אֲבֹתֶ֑יךָ וְקָם֩ הָעָ֨ם הַזֶּ֜ה וְזָנָ֣ה ׀ אַחֲרֵ֣י ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י נֵכַר־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר ה֤וּא בָא־שָׁ֙מָּה֙ בְּקִרְבּ֔וֹ וַעֲזָבַ֕נִי וְהֵפֵר֙ אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר כָּרַ֖תִּי אִתּֽוֹ׃(דברים לא,טז)

"Hashem said to Moshe,"Behold, you will lie with your forefathers, but this people will rise up and stray after the gods of the foreigners of the Land, in whose midst it is coming, and it will forsake Me and annul My Covenant that I have sealed with it."

 Now, the above verse does not say that it "may" happen, the verse states unequivocally that it will certainly happen! 

The meraglim like those in the US were concerned about their spirituality, they said:

 (במדבר יג, לא)"for it is stronger than us" .....כִּֽי־חָזָ֥ק ה֖וּא מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

Rashi said: "כביכול כלפי מעלה אמרו" .... "they said this with respect to Him Who is Above"

They were concerned about their own ruchinus in Olam Haba (שם משמואל שלח, תרע"ה)

The meraglim told Hashem:

"RBS"O if we enter Eretz Yisrael, will be forced to close our gemarras and establish a medina, to plow the earth, to populate the land, to establish a government, to be financially solvent,, to build homes, to join the army!  ותורה מה תהא עליה?

It is far better that we remain here, in the midbar, protected by the clouds, eating manna that is absorbed by the body, our clothes don't warp, and have absolutely no worries other than sitting and learning"

These arguments were לשמה! it was all for the sake of Hashem!

But what happened? It was precisely for this very argument, that Klall Yisrael was punished for generations!

Because at the end of the day, the question is not "what is good for me, what is fit for me," not even from a perspective of ruchniyois.

The question is what does the Ribbono Shel Olam want?

And the RBS"O wants Jews to go to Eretz Yisrael and establish Medinas Yisrael even if the result is:וְזָנָ֣ה ׀ אַחֲרֵ֣י ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י נֵכַר־הָאָ֗רֶץ , even if the result is that you will wind up worshipping Idols! 

The Torah understands it to be a near-certainty that this will happen and yet does not propose refraining from entering the Land on that account. On the contrary, we will enter, we will fall and rise, and will probably fall again and rise again, For this is the way of the Torah , to fall and rise.

We did not come to this world to be angels, we are here to show the world that Torah can be applied not only in the wilderness but also in the army, in high-tech, in culture, in every place a human hand can touch and improve.

This is our task, Will we always succeed? Probably not. Will there be failures? Yes. Is it our duty to continue with the mission? Clearly,

This is what we are in the world to do!

There are no guarantees that your children will stay frum should you make aliya, but there is no one not even Rabbi Shoff that can guarantee that your children will not go off the derech in the USA!  For that we need prayer, but at least in Israel they will marry Jewish!

We weren’t commanded to enter Eretz Yisrael because it’s safe — we were commanded to enter because it’s ours. The Torah never promised that Aliyah protects your ruchniyus. It promised that avoiding the mission destroys it.

The meraglim taught us that “What will happen to my ruchniyus?” is the wrong question. The only question that matters is “What does Hashem want?” And Hashem already answered: Go. Build. Fall. Rise. Repeat. That’s the mission.

Rectifying the Sin of the Spies - now!

 by HaRav Shuel Eliyahu  Chief Rabbi of Tzfat

Recently, I had the privilege of sharing Torah ideas with HaRav Yisrael Ariel, shlita, one of the foremost Torah scholars of our day. Most of the understandings presented in this lesson are based upon his insights.

Ingratitude

Zera Shimshon Parshas Shelach

 

Rabbanim are the ones mobilizing the Bnei-Torah rioters inciting them ,planning their activities, and paying for their transport

 

by Paul Mirbach

So, here is what I am thinking about the Haredi pogrom perpetrated against Supreme Court Justice, Noam Solberg.

1. Unlike the mass protests of Haredim on Tuesday, where they blocked highways and train tracks for hours, which was a threatening act to display their ability to bring the entire country to a standstill, the targeted, personal attack on Solberg was a calculated act of intimidation. Extortion in it's blackest form (sic).

2. It is clear that these "protests" are being coordinated.

3. There is nothing spontaneous about bussing hundreds of Haredi Yeshiva bochers from Beit Shemesh to Alon Shvut. It requires organization, from ordering buses, to permission for to skip Torah study, to gaining entry to a Yishuv in the West Bank which has an electric gate and guards. (Is it not strange that Torah study is so important that they cannot miss a day of study to serve in the army, but they can take off as much time as they want - every day - to protest the draft)?

4. It requires paying for the buses, which cost at least 2500 NIS a pop. At 50 per bus, every time, calculate the cost. There is no way these Yeshiva students are paying for it. Maybe it's coming out of the billions allocated to them by the government? The vast majority of the Haredim involved in the attack were minors. This is not coincidence; minors are treated with leniency and juvenile courts are much more forgiving. Furthermore, sentences of minors are expunged when they become adults, basically letting them off the hook, allowing them to get drivers' licenses, etc.

5. Do you think any of the protestors, who are minors, have the wherewithal to order the buses, much less money in their accounts to pay for them?

All this, points to the probability that they are being mobilized by their Rabbis and teachers who are inciting them, who are planning their activities, and who are paying for their transport and organizing it.

Which brings me to the Police. It sounds good, that 62 Haredi youth were arrested. Great. But it means nothing, and they will all be released - wait and see. But no Rabbis, no Yeshiva heads who are inciting them, instructing them, sending them and providing them with the logistics and permission to skip studies have been investigated. The Police are playing King Canute against the tide.

They may not serve in the army, but this has the "ש"ג" syndrome written all over it. And, if they don't go after the organizers, coordinators and inciters, it's not going to stop. We ain't seen nothing yet

These are NOT Peleg Rioters these are Mainstream Charedim

 

There is a common—extremely common—claim that Haredim make whenever there is a riot or act of violence carried out by members of the Eida Haredit or the Peleg Yerushalmi:

“We aren’t those Haredim. They are extremists; we’re not. Rabbi X doesn’t agree with rioting. There are differences in hashkafa (outlook, beliefs, worldview). The secular world doesn’t understand the distinctions between the various groups.”

This morning, the day after the Alon Shvut riot, Radio Qol B’Rama’s Yaki Adamker and Yisrael Cohen—two of Israel’s most prominent Haredi journalists—interviewed Rav Boaz Naqi, a spokesman for the Peleg Yerushalmi.

I don’t particularly care about what he said; frankly, there were no surprises. The issue is that they spoke with Rav Naqi at all. The interview was respectful, especially by the standards of Israeli news interviews. More important than the content or tone of the conversation is the fact that the conversation took place.

Qol B’Rama will not interview MKs from Yesh Atid. That is a policy decision; they are effectively off-limits. A few months ago, for the first time in a very long time, these same two journalists interviewed a Yesh Atid MK. The conversation lasted roughly 30 seconds. One of the journalists felt the need to insult the MK at the beginning of the interview. The MK hung up, and that was the end of it.

When Haredim make their claim—that there are important differences between groups, that Rav Dov Landau or Rav Moshe Hirsch may despise the state but do not encourage violence, and that they are not like the Peleg or the Eida—they forget one important point: no one cares.

No one outside their community cares about the microscopic distinctions between these worldviews. Perhaps those differences would make for an interesting graduate-school seminar, but in the real world they are largely irrelevant. Put aside, for the moment, the argument that Rav Landau’s and Rav Hirsch’s statements help lay the intellectual groundwork for the violence perpetrated yesterday. That is a separate and important discussion. The critical point is that these differences are an illusion.

More significantly, the Haredim themselves do not seem to care. Mainstream Haredi media figures clearly view someone like Rav Boaz Naqi as part of their community. No mainstream Haredi journalist would refuse to interview members of these groups. No one is going to exclude them from a minyan. (Full disclosure: I have attended synagogues in Haredi neighborhoods where I was not counted for a minyan. It was rare, but it happened.) No one is going to question the kashrut standards of the Eida Haredit. No one is going to do anything remotely comparable to what some—admittedly a small number of—religious Zionist rabbis and community leaders have done in response to the hilltop rioters.

Anyone who read the tepid condemnation issued by the Shas and Degel HaTorah MKs saw a perfect example of what I mean. Not one word about who committed the crime. Not one word about who was attacked. They condemned violence in the abstract. They devoted far more words to criticizing the Supreme Court and defending their own community than they did to condemning the attack itself. These MKs felt that their job is to protect their community, including the rioters.

So yes, it was Haredim who rioted—without any adjective attached to soften, qualify, or limit that description.

About the Author

Ben Waxman was born in the US  He lived in the Jerusalem area for decades and now resides in the Shomron.

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Aliyah from North America Continues to Rise

More than 2,300 Jews from 478 families are expected to make aliyah from North America this summer through Nefesh B'Nefesh.

The organization plans to operate 47 group flights from cities  including New York, Miami, Boston, and Los Angeles.

Nefesh B'Nefesh expects to surpass last year's total of more than 4,150 olim from North America, one of the highest annual figures in the organization's history.

Chuck “Cryi'n" Schumer Endorses a Nazi Candidate who Praised Hamas June 3, 2026

 

Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who has long called himself a “Shomer Yisroel,” is standing fully behind a Democratic Senate candidate who spent years sporting a Nazi-linked tattoo, posted comments online praising a deadly Hamas raid on Israelis, and appeared on a podcast hosted by antisemitic conspiracy theorists. And he doesn’t want to talk about it.

During a press gaggle this week, Schumer repeatedly dodged questions about Graham Platner, insisting over and over that Democrats are “gonna beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.” When asked directly, “Are you satisfied with the explanations he’s given for the controversies his campaign has faced right now? Are you concerned about what you’ve heard?” Schumer replied: “I met with Graham Platner today. We’re going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.”

The man Schumer is determined to elect to the Senate is an oyster farmer from Maine with a history that has alarmed Jewish groups across the spectrum.

Platner carried for years a chest tattoo depicting a Totenkopf — a skull symbol associated with Nazi SS units — which he only covered up with a new tattoo after announcing his Senate run. He claimed he didn’t know about the symbol’s Nazi associations.

The tattoo was only the beginning. In a since-deleted Reddit post commenting on a deadly 2014 Hamas raid on Israeli soldiers, Platner wrote, “Looks like an all around well executed and successful small unit raid to me.” When another user criticized the Hamas “execution” of the Israeli soldiers, Platner replied: “Pragmatically I have little problem with killing an enemy combatant who you attempt to capture but for whatever reason cannot. From a strictly professional standpoint, this was a damn fine looking and successful raid against a superior opponent.”

Outrage as High Court Orders Government To Allow Red Cross Visits To Nukhba Terrorists

 

Three judges on Israel’s High Court ruled unanimously to revoke the government’s policy prohibiting visits by the Red Cross to Palestinian security prisoners held in Israel Prison Service and IDF facilities, including the Nukhba terrorists who participated in the murderous October 7 massacre.

The policy was instituted immediately after the October 7 massacre.

The main ruling was written by Justice Daphne Barak‑Erez, who wrote that the government failed to present a legal basis for the policy. Previously, the government’s main justification for the policy was the fact that the Red Cross did not visit Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Deputy President of the Court, Justice Noam Solberg, joined the ruling, noting “the difficulty of reconciling the policy with the relevant provisions of domestic law, which the state chose not to amend or repeal, and the state’s failure to present any legal basis for its decisions despite many opportunities to do so.”

Justice Yitzchak Amit agreed with the other two judges.

The Court therefore ruled that the state must permit Red Cross representatives to visit security prisoners and provide information about their status in accordance with the procedures outlined in the Red Cross Ordinance, and, with necessary adjustments, in IDF‑run facilities as well.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir condemned the decision. “A disgraceful decision by detached judges who sit in an ivory tower and continue to worry about terrorists while Israeli citizens pay the price of terrorism. Every such decision is a reminder of why the judicial system needs deep reform. Reform now!”