Prohibition on traveling abroad

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