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In addition to the reasons given by the Rambam and quoted in this other answer, both the Magen Avraham (OC 531:7) and Mishna Brura (OC 531:14) allow traveling outside of Israel to see a friend. And a …

Our texts are full of praise for the Land of Israel and how Torah study there is of a different quality than in the Diaspora. Maybe the rashei yeshiva and parents who send kids to Israel want them to …

I have now seen an interesting answer from a very different angle. R Aharon Leib Steinmann (in his artscroll biography, p. 394) was asked whether it would be a good idea to establish a state-of-the-ar …

Interestingly R Shlomo Aviner writes this is a very old question. At the end of the Kuzari [written in ca. 1140], the King of the Khazars asks the scholar: “Why are you going to Eretz Yisrael? S …

I am not sure which translation you are using and where you see that "living outside of Israel is itself a transgression". Are you taking this from the Koren interpolation? The core of the gemara is …

aish brings the sources You shall possess the Land and dwell in it - Bamidbar 33:53 and the gemara in Ketubot 111a Whoever walks four amot in the Land of Israel may rest assured that he will …

aish brings the sources You shall possess the Land and dwell in it - Bamidbar 33:53 and the gemara in Ketubot 111a Whoever walks four amot in the Land of Israel may rest assured that he will …

The reason that supporting Israeli businesses can be seen as a mitzva is that there is an overall mitzva to buy and sell preferably from Jews (when you have the choice). This is based on a verse in Va …

On that gemara, artscroll notes Although on the surface this verse discusses the Babylonian exile, which ended long before the time of Rav Yehudah and R Abba, Rav Yehudah understood it as refe …

Ben Zion Sobel, the Feldheim translator of the Concise Book of Mitzvot (from the Chafetz Haim) has added an appendix with the the commandments which are contingent on the land of Israel. He writes he …

Birthright is the general label for a 10-day all-expense paid first trip to Israel. Within that umbrella, different providers organize the actual trips. Some of these providers offer options geared to …

The source for this halacha is a gemara in Menachot 44a. There Koren translates pundak as a guesthouse while artscroll translates it as an inn. For more on this topic see Does one really have 30 days …

R Eliezer Melamed (Peninei Halacha Moadim 9:8) writes indeed If one buys an apartment in Eretz Yisrael and lives there during his visits, he is considered a resident of Eretz Yisrael while there. R …

R Eliezer Melamed (Rosh Yeshiva in Har Bracha) writes that it is We have already learned that the mitzvah of settling the Land of Israel does not involve only conquering it, but also requires th …

I believe the answer is only after the rest of the land was conquered but before the land was allocated, and all this happened after the death of Moshe. See Bamidbar 32:29 where Moshe instructs Eleaz …