Last night Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, founder and director of Nefesh B' Nefesh, gave a very passionate and moving speech about the importance of Aliyah. He didn't preach it, just talked about the importance.
The core of his talk was based on five points, five areas in which we have to improve, in order to bring 100,000 olim from North America to Israel in the next 10 years.
Very briefly, his five points were:
1) We shouldn't wait for the rabbis to lead the way.
2) We shouldn't teach our children (or think ourselves) of Israel primarily as a charity case, as a refuge for persecuted Jews or as a country under siege.
3) We have to learn to separate current headlines about Israel from the gift of Eretz Yisrael that Hashem gave us.
4) We shouldn't be concerned that our support for Israel and for aliyah calls into question our loyalty to America. The American Jewish community has matured beyond that stage.
5) We must learn to continuously marvel, appreciate, never lose sight of and enhance all the miracles Hashem has bestowed upon Israel in the last 60 years.
If you want a copy of the MP3 recording of the talk, let me know what your email address is.
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