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Aren't the Jews supposed to wait for their Messiah to lead them back to Israel?
Answer
The Talmud (Ketubot) says that after the destruction of the Holy Temple, the
Jewish people should not go en masse to Israel and take the land by force.
Some scholars says this applies to the State of Israel today. The vast majority
of rabbis say that this doesn't apply today for a variety of technical reasons,
or that the UN acceptance of the Partition Plan means that our return to the land
was not "by force."
The Messiah will indeed usher in the full spiritual
return of the Jewish people, as well as brining in the remaining Jews from lands
of exile.
Rabbi Shraga Simmons
Aish.com
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