Reply To: Learning Torah protects

UJM- “Currently there are far far too few learners. We need to increase, greatly, the number of learners.”

How in the world do you know? There is probably more Torah being learned today than any other time in history… certainly in Eretz Yisroel itself. There are certainly a lot of people out who aren’t learning enough and should be doing more, both religious Jews and certainly secular Jews, but how do you know that the Torah that is out there, which is a tremendous amount, isn’t sufficient for our defensive needs that we need to take away soldiers, who are needed, in order to learn?

And if it is true that there are far too few learners, then how come we aren’t asking older men to quit their jobs, close their businesses, and learn for the sake of national defense? We ask miluim soldeirs to do that for the physical side of our defense, why does our spiritual defense require less sacrifice? And if we can meet our learning quota from the older men who are currently engaged in parnassah, then maybe we could move younger men into the physical ranks of our defense and have both needs met.