Someone asked me a burning question on the 4th night of Hanukkah:

Should all Jews move to Israel?

And here’s my answer:

I chose this place and youll have to take me out of hete feet first. I’m not leaving.

But should everyone move here? Not necessarily.

Jews have never been a simple people. We live with contradiction, tension, argument. After all, Jacob didn’t become Israel by arriving somewhere peacefully — he became Israel by wrestling. With God. With himself. With the future. Complexity isn’t a bug in Jewish life; it’s the operating system.

For one thing, safety. History has taught us — again and again — that concentrating all Jews in one place is not always wise. A dispersed people is, paradoxically, a resilient one. The tribe survives because it knows how to live in many landscapes at once.

There is also moral wisdom in dispersion. Living as a........

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