Prohibition on traveling abroad
Hello Rabbi, I wanted to ask you a small question regarding traveling to the Netherlands for a ski vacation. Is this permissible according to Halacha?
There is a lot of room for easing up on traveling for a trip or vacation. While some are strict about this, in my opinion there is really no point in it.
Maayan
Hello Rabbi, if you could please expand on the place of prohibition/permission to travel abroad for the purpose of a trip/vacation. Thank you very much!
4 months ago
Mikhi
Hello Rabbi.
Quite a bit has been written about this and can be found online. In general, I see no reason to prohibit travel for such purposes, and several important poskim have done the same. At its core, the prohibition is against settling down, and some have also expanded it to include the fear of settling down. Traveling these days is really a temporary trip (unlike in their time when traveling was a difficult and complex trip and there was definitely a fear that it would be irreversible).
See Wikipedia:
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%90%D7%94_%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5_%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C_(%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%94)
And also here:
http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/israel/maamarim/yetsia-2.htm
And much more.
4 months ago
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