Haaretz Hatovah Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. Rebecca Lefkowitz - Waiting for Moshiach here Reflecting upon my life, I am not certain why or when it started, but in my heart was always a desire to live in Eretz Yisroel. Perhaps its root was in an early trauma of mine – when I was [...]
Haaretz Hatovah Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. Chaya Taub - Home at Last Until 2006, at the great pleading of good friends of ours, who had made Aliyah a few years back, my husband Dovid had never been to Eretz Yisroel and I had only come once before as a teenager on a sponsored [...]
Haaretz Hatovah Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. I grew up in Kensington – that’s between Boro Park and Flatbush, for those unfamiliar with Brooklyn, it’s in the heart of the frum community. I came to Eretz Yisroel straight after high school although I was a bit young and that was off the beaten track. [...]
Haaretz Hatovah Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. Above & Beyond “Normal”: Life in Eretz Yisroel. Our family made “aliyah” from the U.S. to Ramat Beit Shemesh about six years ago. I was born in Highland Park, NJ but I grew up in Baltimore, whereas my wife originates from Maryland. Moving to Eretz Hakodesh has [...]
Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. The second Modzitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub, (1886-1947) an outstanding Talmid Chochom, had tremendous love for Eretz Yisroel and prophesied that a Jewish State would come into being. Sadly he passed away on Shabbos, the 16th day of Kislev, Nov. 29, 1947, the day the UN voted [...]
I love nature and I'm also attracted to ruchniyus. It was only natural that I made Eretz Yisroel my home, being the place where ruchniyus is natural and where nature is ruchniyus. From the Teveria apartment building I live in, there are views of the beautiful Kinneret and its green surroundings. I enjoy looking at the scenery and connecting to [...]
Various Perspectives and Experiences of English speakers Living in Eretz Yisroel How We Made It in Eretz Yisroel It was over fifty years ago when my husband, Meir Miller, first came to Eretz Yisroel as a bochur to learn in yeshiva. He had a strong desire to learn Torah in Eretz Yisroel and therefore worked hard as a waiter for [...]
Various Perspectives and Experiences of English speakers Living in Eretz Yisroel Present and Future I came from Los Angeles as a bochur to the Mir Yeshiva, and then got married here in Eretz Yisroel. I continued learning in the Mir, while my wife worked for Otzar HaChochma, the world's largest digital seforim library, in its beginning stages of amassing and [...]
Ratzon HaShem I came to learn in Eretz Yisroel after three years in Beis Medrash (post high school). I grew up in Lakewood, New Jersey, and, like most of my friends, when I came to learn in Eretz Yisroel I had no long-term intentions. I came to do the two-year Eretz Yisroel experience. Like most bochurim, this obviously included Shabbos seudos at the [...]
Various Perspectives and Experiences of English speakers Living in Eretz Yisroel This Is Our Own As a Jew, this is my real home. It’s my own culture, my own alphabet all around me. Prophecies come alive. A large portion of our Torah is relevant only here. It’s only my first day in Eretz Yisroel and I already receive Bircas Kohanim. When [...]
