Reply To: Responsibility to serve – without the politics

MusicMan, Yair Cohen and Meir Ben Shachar have big zchus but think of the learning that was lost by their being in the kochi veotzem yadi army to begin with. As for bein hazmanim, it has the force of tradition and you can’t calculate the gain of suspending a tradition against the loss. And the “religious” businessman made his own judgment call on the basis of ed mi-pi ed and ran to Mishpacha with it. That’s not the way of a religious person.