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>>16696829
For starters that is "zehi" not "zeri" ( ぜひ ) unless that is some weird dialect I am unaware of.

In this specific case using kana won't "make a big difference" because it doesn't have any homonyms (that I am aware of). So people will always read it with the meaning "by all means" or "certainly" or something along those lines. However most words do have homonyms so without the kanji to distinguish one from the other, all you would have to go by is context, and sometimes that isn't enough or leads to unnecessary confusion.

Furthermore not using kanji turns sentences into an absolute mess, just one large string of kana with no way to distinguish between one word and the next. Itwouldbelikemewritinglikethisinenglishitwouldbecompletelyretardedandtakepeoplefartoolongtodecipher.

Last but certainly not least kanji are very useful for grouping words and memorizing them. Some examples:

Taberu (たべる) and Shokuhin (しょくひん), look nor sound nothing alike right? Yet one means "to eat" and the other means "food/foodstuff", so the words are related.
Now look at the kanji used the words:
>食べる = Taberu (たべる)
>食品 = Shokuhin (しょくひん)
Tada, they share the same root, now it is easy to remember, not odd since 食 (しょく / shoku) is the word for "meal". This relation would completely pass you by if you didn't learn kanji.

Other words that use the kanji 食?

dining table
table salt
groceries
appetite
consume

Seeing a pattern here? Even its more "obscure" uses such as in the word for "to defeat" makes sense if you consider it in the sense of "devouring an enemy".

All this lost to you because instead of learning those words with the associated kanji 食 you decided to learn them in kana.

Learn kanji, they are a godsend, not a foe.