Cheshbon

Having gone through the process of making Aliyah (B”H) and knowing others who are contemplating it, I think the below statement couldn’t have been said any better -

“So many people have a Cheshbon (calculation) as to why they are not moving to Eretz Israel. One has children who go to college, another wants a better retirement package . . . We should take a lead from the Torah, that before the Jews entered Eretz Israel with Yehoshua, they first killed the King of Cheshbon…” –Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook

(saw this as the signature in someone’s email)