Poverty in Israel is a Problem

«How can I mislead those wanderers with bad advice, for from the first day they arrive in Eretz Yisrael they will lack both food and water. There is no place in Eretz Yisrael to earn even a single agora. Their Arab neighbors will not buy anything from them. Not so in America. True, they won't earn a princely salary from the start, but they can break their hunger with their peddling from the first day. And whether or not they stay religious, depends on their choice, for even there it is possible for them to remain faithful to Hashem. Not so when living in poverty, for it causes a person to transgress al da'as kono with certainty," Reb Yisrael explained.
(Tenuas HaMussar, Vol. I, pp. 213-14.)»

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