Q&A: The Prohibition on Traveling Abroad
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The Prohibition on Traveling Abroad
Question
Hello Rabbi, I wanted to ask you a small question regarding traveling abroad for a ski vacation: is that permitted according to Jewish law?
Answer
There is considerable room to be lenient regarding travel for a trip or vacation. True, there are those who are stringent about this, but in my opinion there is nothing substantial to that.
Maayan
Hello Rabbi, if you could please elaborate on the basis for the prohibition/permission of traveling abroad for the purpose of a trip/vacation. Thank you very much!
4 months ago
Michi
Hello,
Quite a bit has been written about this, and you can find it online. In general, I do not see grounds to prohibit travel for such purposes, and quite a number of important halakhic decisors have ruled this way as well. At root, the prohibition is about settling there permanently, and some extended it also to a concern about settling there. A trip nowadays is truly temporary travel (unlike in their time, when travel was difficult and complex, and there was definitely room for concern that it might become 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 many more.
4 months ago