Reply To: LETTER TO BIBI [in Hebrew]

Because the problem here is not doing the army itself. And the goal of the law is not that they do the army. The discussion here is about the Orthodox way of life. The main goal of the law is that the Orthodox people stop being so Orthodox and start being more secular. Army, jobs, education. There is no problem with an army. Or with working. But we will not do it in a way that is detrimental to the Torah way of life.

There are some works where nobody would send their children because they would learn there bad habits, right? Is the same here. Orthodox Jews have a different moral standard, so, for them, the army generate big problems to their way of life (and, since is not necessary for defense proposes, just for social proposes), they won’t go.

Just imagine the opposite scenario. A Orthodox country, with a Orthodox army, in which the secular that are conscripted would rapidly became extreme Orthodox . Would the secular minority of that Orthodox country be happy to send their children to this army? Is not a defense problem, is a religious problem. The discussion here is theological, not practical.