Another Aliyah Rant

I was reading the article in the Yeshiva World News about the hardships of Jewish families in America with tuition and healthcare. Not to be blunt or anything, but of the 60 comments posted the word "Aliyah" didn't come up once. (Well, it will when, and if, they post my comment.) How come people don't think of Aliyah as an option? It's what I like to call the curse of the Exile, people have become so comfortable that they've forgotton what the mission of the Jewish people is.

There's a weekly parshah sheet that makes it's rounds in my Shul called the "Penimim." They had an interesting insight into the cause for anti semitism. You know what the cause is?

The Jews.

Not that the Jews exist, but the fact that Jews forget what their mission is.

There's a reason Yaakov declined Eisav's invitation to join with him after they meet (in next weeks Parshah). Yaakov knew that he would be safer traveling with Eisav, but if he did that his family would start to assimilate with Eisavs family and the Jews mission would become lost.

It's funny, because this came from a Yeshivish source, I think some people whould start practicing what they preach.