Daf 110B, says something along the lines of, if you live outside the land of israel it is as if you are an idolator.
The non zionist guy made a great point though.. he said "the rabbis that wrote that were living in babylon, so you have to ask what they meant"..
I guess he is right..
LOL, then in that case, we have to ask WHO wrote the oaths, and what did THEY mean by them? To dismiss a talmudic teaching outright like this (G-d forbid), we can dismiss any teaching outright (G-d forbid) and that includes this silly oath argument!
You are taking what I said out of context.
I said to the non zionist about the importance of living in israel.. and I used THAT as a proof.
He replied with that response, which was very correct of him. (doesn`t mean he is right to be a non zionist)
BTW, as mentioned, both Reb Zeira and Rav Yehuda did take the 3 oaths seriously. Reb Zeira said it applied to en masse, not to individuals. So your parallel does not work.. (nevertheless, it may -still- be that they meant it differently,). As mentioned, it does also say elsewhere on one of those 2 pages, that if living in babylon, stay in babylon, and if living in israel, stay in israel. I did mention that as problematic, seems inconsisitent with the 3 oaths. Of course we have to ask what things mean..That is obvious.