Question:
Do I have to go to Jerusalem this year to be makayem the mitzvah of hakhel?
Answer:
Peace and Blessings
Nowadays, we do not get to fulfill the commandments of hakhel as commanded by the Torah, and we do not fulfill anything but a remembrance of the commandments of the mitzvah. Therefore, it is not obligatory for every person to go to Jerusalem to fulfill this mitzvah, because the memory of the mitzvah is not obligatory for individuals.
The reason for this is that there is currently no mitzvah of hakhel from the Torah, because there is no yovel or shmitah in our days. Secondly, since we are unable to fulfill the commandments of the crowd in the place of the temple because we are unclean of the dead, in addition, because we are unclean of the dead, we are not obligated by the commandments of a’liyah laregel’, and those who are not obligated by the commandments of a’liyah laregel’ are not obligated even by the commandments of hakhel, thirdly, since there is currently no king in Israel, there is no obligation of the commandments of the audience from the Torah.
May we soon be blessed to be revealed and see His kingdom over us
And we will make a pilgrimage to the Temple together to show before our King Our Redeemer
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