ForeverYoung436
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Apparently not.It is not. You already were told it.If it is a commandmentNaughty Jews, not following Mitzvah!
I guess Post #16 in this thread goes some way to explaining that Jews are not in 'danger' in the rest of the world and the need to a safe(?) homeland is actually not that necessary.
That is either woefully naive or purposefully false.
Antisemitism on rise across Europe 'in worst times since the Nazis'
I specifically used a three year old article to trace a bit of recent history. It’s not just coincidence that the waves of Islamists invading Europe for welfare benefits brought with them “cultural ills” which include rabid Jew hatreds.
The situation is even worse now, more than three years later. Do you need more?
I think Rambam holds that living in Israel is one of 613 mitzvot. But most Jews are comfortable where they are.
"Nachmanides wrote a critique of Maimonides Sefer HaMitzvot. Sefer HaMitzvot is an enumeration and description of the 613 mitzvot of the Torah. As part of his critique, Nachmanides provided a list of commandments that Maimonides neglected to count in his enumeration of the 613 mitzvot. In his list of positive commandments that Maimonides “missed”, Nachmanides includes the mitzvah to posses the land of Israel. "
Parshat Shelach: Are We Required to Live in Israel? - OU Torah
I sit corrected. So it was Ramban (Nachmanides), and not Rambam (Maimonides), who counted that as one of the Commandments. (I knew it was one of those rabbis.)