“Why bring up this discussion by Zionist Rabbis, as if serving in the IDF is worth even discussing?”
This thread began as a discussion about army service and became diverted when people started arguing whether working or kollel (or both) is a Jewish ideal. This Rambam was brought up and people have also used this Rambam as a source for army exemption. Anyway, as I said, I was not discussing serving in the army; I was discussing using this Rambam as a source for army exemption. And correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think that R’ Isser Zalman Meltzer was a Zionist Rabbi, and as for R’ Aharon Lichtenstein, if you want to discredit his opinion, it would be more helpful if you addressed his arguments than simply calling him a Zionist Rabbi.