manitou- ages 20 to 60. what heter is there to impose this mitzvah on an 18 year old?
we are not at war. Because of the army. Hence, all we need is enough to prevent war.
My rebbi’s american cousin came to our yeshiva by a shalosh seudos, and he told us about how he tried to get in the army for a while, and they just refused him, stating, they didn’t have boots in his size.
After pressing, they finally let him in.
He has normal sized feet.
They obviously did not need him, otherwise they would not have made up such a stupid excuse. Let him join, the more the merrier, right? But no, he was rejected over nothing. They made up a reason as to why they could not take him.
There are plenty of bachurim with that shoe size, yet they are not getting a ptur for having average sized feet.
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