Hi, my father keeps asking for me to give him three of the biggest sources in the Torah for why should make aliyah. I told him about how you can do more mitzvot when you live in Israel and I told him about your speech about us being in Y'mot HaMashiach. He still isn’t convinced. I was wondering if you had any other ideas of what I can tell him about? Also, he brought up the point of how do we know that Hashem doesn’t want another exile and I wasn’t fully sure how to answer that question.

Hi and great to hear from you and especially to see that America hasn't worn off your idealism and Zionism! Here are some English articles which I wrote on the topic of your father's questions (see https://www.yeshiva.co/midrash/10931 and https://www.yeshiva.co/midrash/10933 and https://www.tora.co.il › shvat › galut_altenativ DOC), but it's important to first stress that it's not our job to educate our parents. Adults in general are pretty "set in their ways" and how much more so are not really open to difficult changes like leaving their work, family, community, friends etc., where "cognitive dissonance" makes objectivity and convincing them almost impossible. How much more so regarding people in the previous generation, if they already moved from one continent to another, and then again moved from one state to another, they want to finally "settle down", and the average person would obviously oppose such big "overhauls". Unless they are really idealistic, it's usually more practical to wait until you make aliya, and they will want to follow to be with you and their grand-children. So in the meantime, it's not worth the argument and harming Shalom Bayit (especially if they won't listen anyway)!