🗺️ In the early twelfth century, several groups of learned Jews, mainly from France, England, and Provence, reached Eretz Yisrael. What do we know about their journey and motivations?
Perhaps these Baalei Tosfos made aliyah because they realized that Jewish life and the transmission of Torah in France at the time of the Crusades was no longer viable
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Perhaps these Baalei Tosfos made aliyah because they realized that Jewish life and the transmission of Torah in France at the time of the Crusades was no longer viable
That has indeed been suggested and I tend to think it was a factor, too.