The Only Place To Be Great

A scary Maharal: He says that Avraham only achieved greatness when he went to Eretz Yisrael. Fregt Rav Hartman - He was already 75 then. He had converted long ago. He had been mekarev so many people in Charan. How can one say that only when he went to Israel he became great?? He answers with a quote from the Maharal in Derech Chaim:

כי מעלת האבות דוקא מצד הארץ כי אם לא היה הארץ לא הגיעו האבות אל קדושה העליונה ולכן הארץ מגדלתן ומזה תדע כי הארץ שייכת לאבות והארץ אל האבות ביותר

 

The Avos only became truly great because of Eretz Yisrael!!! [It is explicit in the Zohar Hakadosh]

 

YIDDDEEENNNNN - Come home!!!!!!!:-):-) Enuff shmutz la-aretz! Lakewood, Flatbush, Boro Park, Passaic, Monsey - you guys are great. So frum! Such Bnei Toirah. I love you all. So many kosher food stories, heimishe clothing stores, sheitel machers, sfarim stores, what not. But Israel it ain't.

 

Is the Toirah Tziyoini or what????