14 Lessons

Is It Permitted to Buy an "Investment Property" in Judea/Samaria?
I would like to buy a home in Yesha (Judea/Samaria) in order to make some money Is this appropriate, or should I assume that it is not a good idea, because it makes it harder for others to fulfill the commandment of settling the Land of Israel?
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Iyar 12 5782

What About Rabbis Who Say It's Ok to Give Away Land?
Rav Zalman Baruch Melamed answers the question: How should one relate to great Torah scholars who rule that parts of the Land of Israel may be given over to autonomous gentile rule?
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Shvat 26 5782

Why Such an Emphasis on the Land of Israel?
Why did the religious-Zionist camp take upon itself the commandment of the Land of Israel as such a primary and important project, while ignoring all the other commandments?
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Cheshvan 16 5782

Why Live in the Land of Israel?
Translated by Hillel Fendel
The entire Torah is full of teachings about the value of Eretz Yisrael. One who engages in Torah must view the Land as very precious, and the striving to be in Eretz Israel must fill his entire heart.
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Sivan 19 5781

Settling the land of Israel - a mitzvah and not only a privilege
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Tammuz 19 5777

Yishuv Ha'artz and Pikuach Nefesh
Is there a Mitzva to settle the land of Israel although the danger of war and terror?
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Adar 5754

To the Settlers of Gush Katif
People of Gush Katif, you are presently paining and perplexed, and we share in your suffering. Yet we are full of faith that by enduring these trials and understanding that they are “pangs of the Messiah,” you will ascend to a new and better reality.
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | 5766

Appreciating the Land and the Holy Temple
Just as the Jewish people never forgot their land and has now returned to it, they will, in the same respect, never forget the Holy Temple and will return to it as well - God willing, speedily in our days
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | av, 5754

Where Things Stand
1. New Heights 2. A Purely Religious Obligation 3. All Eyes on Jerusalem 4. A Yom Kippur Motif 5. The World Awaits 6. Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Tishrey 5761

Travelling Abroad for Pesach
1. The Question 2. A "New Custom" 3. The Torah Vision 4. Impact of the Exile
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed

Settling the Land of Israel
There is an obligation, based on the mitzvah of settling the Land, not to evacuate Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel.
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | 27 Adar 5754

Eretz Yisrael and the Torah Are One and the Same
We must fight for the entirety of the Land and the entirety of Torah as one, for they are one and the same. The abandonment of the Land weakens Torah observance and the abandonment of Torah weakens our hold on the Land.
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | 26 Iyar 5753

The Holiness of the Land of Israel and Jerusalem
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Tishrey 5762
