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?
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
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
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.
Tu Bishvat - The Bond Between the Jewish People and Eretz Yisrael
On Tu BiShvat we affirm that the connection between Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael is absolute and eternal, a Divine connection, and that nobody and nothing can separate the People of Israel from their land.