People quote various reasons why not to move here. They say this is wrong, and that is wrong, and x, y and z. And you know what? They're right!
There's just one problem. They aren't reasons not to move here. They aren't issues with this beautiful, holy land Hashem gave us. It's because we are still in galus, even here. Especially here. This land I'm living in isn't the real Eretz Yisrael - so it's OK it's not perfect. It's not supposed to be perfect yet.
The holiness of the land is still readily felt. Hashem wants His children home, there is no question. But Hashem ein bayit - G-d does not have a home. So things still have to be imperfect in the world, especially here, so that we remember to sit on the floor a couple minutes a day and pray that Hashem will come home.
It's like a wife that gets kicked out of her house by her husband, and he separates from her. Finally, she gets a letter saying "You can come home now! The door is unlocked." She comes back to the house, and lo and behold, she can come in!
There is just one little problem - her husband isn't there. She looks and looks for him, but he isn't home. So she leaves a big sign on the door "Please Come Home!"
That's us now. We're home, but Hashem isn't. So when things go wrong, instead of getting frustrated and beating your head against a wall, first you ask Hashem to deal with the situation at hand. And then you cry because this is all happening because Hashem doesn't have a house yet, while realizing that G-d willing soon, when G-d does have His House here again, all these problems will dissapear and the land will once again be the beautiful, perfect, Gan Eden on earth that it's supposed to be.
Bimheira v'yameinu.
Nice analogy, Aish posted one like that for Tisha B'Av last year, about how if you lost your wife, home, and job all on the same day because of your drinking, and it finally prompted you to clean up, eventually you would look back on that day in a positive light, instead of a negative light.
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