When a Jew today thinks of making aliya to Eretz Yisrael or even visiting, all he has to do is get on a plane and arrive in a matter of hours. But when Ezra the Scribe laid the "foundation for aliya" (Ezra 7:9) by leading a large number of Jews from Babylonian exile to Eretz Yisrael it took him four months until he arrived in Jerusalem. This is how this historic foundation is described:

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