Some people might have forgotten that the chareidi tzibbur follows the rulings and opinions of the Gedolei Torah shlit”a. All the analyses, the hair-splitting, and the injecting of personal opinions on this forum and elsewhere as to what people should be doing or not doing are basically irrelevant. A certain relative of mine asked me a while back, in all sincerity if I thought that it’s a mitzva or a kiddush Hashem that the boys should serve in the IDF. I told her that what I say is immaterial. Go discuss it with Rav Chaim Kanievsky and Rav Aaron Leib Shteinman, and if you convince them, then it’s fine with me . . . And she said, “yeah, you’re right.” So, all this verbiage about this particular case, or that specific baal teshuva who became frum due to meeting some frum fellow in the army, etc. I’m not doubting for a moment that the facts are true. I’m saying take your evidence, your facts, your anecdotes — to the Gedolei Torah and see what they say about it.
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