The Pesach Holiday is personified by the words, “BeNissan nigahlu BeNissan Ahteadin Leegohale (In the month of Nissan we were redeemed and we will be redeemed in the month of Nissan)­ - Talmud: Rosh Hashannah 11:a”. Indeed, the fundamental idea of Geula-redemption is a contemporary idea with the rebirth of Israel.

The Vilna Gaon states in Even Shleima that the last redemption will be enacted with G-d's goodness, even without repentance! The redemption shall come to fruition due to the merits of our forefathers. In addition, the Radak comments on Psalm 108:5 that Geula will come regardless of whether we are worthy or unworthy.

Geula is a contemporary Pesach theme as we recite in the Haggada, "Next year in Jerusalem." Indeed, Maimonides in Hilchos Melachim U'Milchomoseyhem (Chapter 5:12) states, "L'olam yadur odam b'Eretz Yisroel - a person should always live in Israel." Dayan Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer (ZT"L) whose Tzvi L'Tzadik commentary appears in Shulchan Aruch (Yoreh Deah) wrote in Drishat Tzion: "It is an obligation to redeem the Holy Land by settling, in our days, even before the coming of the Moshiach." Dayan Kalischer was the founder of Chovevai Tzion - 19th century Aliyah societies throughout Europe.

It is an issur (prohibition) to renounce redemption by giving up parts of Eretz Yisroel. The boundaries are divinely illustrated in the Torah, "From the River of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates." (Genesis 15:18). Rashi and the Vilna Gaon concur that the "River of Egypt" is the Nile. The Shulchan Aruch (Hilchos Shabbos Chapter 329) states, "As for strangers who march against Jewish cities, even if their intention is to take straw and stubble, one must desecrate Shabbos and take arms against them to prevent them from conquest." Indeed the Mechaber (Author of the Shulchan Aruch) contends it is the intention of Gentiles to take away our Holy Land and we are not allowed to give up any land!

The Rambam (Maimonides) states in Hilchos Chovel U'Mazik Chapter 8,9:10 “A person who turns over a Jewish person or his property to Gentiles is a Moser and the Rambam stipulates in subtitle 10, It is permissible and a mitzvah to execute the Moser even though today we do not have capital punishment, and he who executes the Moser first, has great merit. Indeed, giving up land today to Goyim is apropos of the Rambam's psak!

HaRav Eliezer Silver (ZT"L) a past president of Agudas HaRabbonim - the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada, is quoted in his sefer Tzamach Erez: "It is prohibited for the State of Israel to give up even one inch of her territory. This is according to the din, as well as other reasons. It is prohibited to give up land under any circumstances."

As long as hostile residents inhabit the Land of Israel, the Geula is inhibited! The Torah instructs US! to "remove all hostile residents."(Numbers 33:50-56). Rashi, Ramban, Ibn Ezra and Rashbam comment in unison on the aforementioned Verses; the hostile inhabitants must be removed or else the Jews will be evicted! How unfortunately true it is today!

Furthermore the Rambam stipulates in Hilchos Melachim; Chapter 6:1 that a resident Gentile must be paying a heavy tax, not rule over Jews, and be of a low status. Today they not only transgress their condition but they rape, murder, and sit in the Knesset, ipso facto, they must be transferred! In addition, the concept of “Pikuach Nefesh” (danger to Jewish lives) is apropos: the removal of all hostiles will save Jewish lives!!

In the era of Exodus we experienced a redemption (in Nissan). In a future Nissan we will be redeemed! May we merit to witness the Geula Shleima - the complete redemption speedily in our days!

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