Reply To: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta

Rav Meir Porush said this week:

“I told them something I’ve heard many times from my late father-in-law, Rav Nachum Halpern. When HaRav Amram Blau was imprisoned in 1953 for protesting Chillul Shabbos, the Chazon Ish came to visit him. When he entered the cell, Rav was deeply moved, and the Chazon Ish said to him, ‘You’re here because you protested Chillul Shabbos. In truth, Shabbos itself is now in prison.”