Chasidim in NY have a bracha which presents a challenge. They have very, very large families but Williamsburg and Boro Park don't expand with the population [not to mention the prohibitive priceing of housing]. All 13 children get married and need to find a place to live. So the Chasidim are expanding into other communities and building there.
I saw a clip where a Heismishe Yid was interviewed about his home in a formerly non-Chasidish town in NJ. He told the whole story [told in Yiddish-English-Yinglish] how he found this house. When he ended the story with the purchase his face lit up like the sun in mid-July. In Hebrew we say שפכה נהרה על פניו. It was like bliss.
I couldn't help but think: That's IT??? The Geulah is here??? You dropped a half a million dollars or so on a house with a 30 year mortgage and you are settled? No צפייה לישועה?? No hope that Moshiach come tomorrow - no today - and you leave your comfy house and come to Yerushalayim?? No pangs of guilt that maybe, maybe, maybe New Jersey doesn't have קדושת ארץ ישראל and that every second of your life you are missing out on a mitzva di-oraisa [counted in the תרי"ג, not counted - doesn't matter. Living in EY is DEFINITELY a mitzva in the Torah. Read through recent parshiyos and see how many times Moshe says that the mitzvos were given to keep in EY]. No thoughts that maybe instead of living among Goyim who hate you and Hashem [if you hate Jews, you hate Hashem], you could be living in Beit Shemesh in a nice Chasidish neighborhood that is one hundred percent Jewish??? What about missing out EVERY DAY on a special bracha from Hashem given by the Kohanim?? What about keeping מצוות התלויות בארץ??
It is not his fault. I would submit that he has been poorly educated.
The tikkun to all of this distortion is חיבת ארץ ישראל, intense ציפייה לישועה and supporting those who live in the Land.
