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Thursday Jun 18, 2026
Thursday Jun 18, 2026
Is there a mitzvah to live in Israel nowadays?
What are the largest financial differences between living in Israel and out of Israel?
What budget is necessary to come, at least for a year?
What lends to being successful in moving to Israel and what are the challenges?
What trade-offs do people usually face between cost, community, and lifestyle?
Host: Ari Wasserman
with Rabbi Akiva Dershowitz – Rosh Kollel, Toras Efrayim Shlomo, Yerushalayim – 10:42
with Jonathan Rosenblum – Mishpacha Columnist and author – 39:30
with Rabbi Paysach Freedman – CEO and co-founder of Chaim V'Chessed - 50:24
with Mrs. Rifka Lebowitz – CFP and founder of Living Financially Smarter In Israel – 1:15:17
with Naftali Derovan - Head of the Aliyah Guidance Division of Nefesh B’Nefesh – 1:41:15
Conclusions and Takeaways – 2:04:31
7 days ago
Is there a mitzvah of keeping Shabbos nowadays? What budget is necessary to keep Shabbos, at least for a year? When we replace the mitzvah of living in Israel with the mitzvah of Shabbos, it really expresses the problem with doubting the great mitzvah that the entire Torah rests on, the most mentioned mitzvah in the entire Torah, mentioned 86 times......It is clear that few people are an expert on this mitzvah and they did not put in the research needed to understand the mitzvah, its eternal obligation, it is not being presented here in its full light. I recommend Homebound Israel Does The Torah Require Us to Live In Eretz Yisrael for a more in depth analysis of the halachos involved.