Reply To: Responsibility to serve – without the politics

Yekke, how much a person has to learn is a big discussion. The Baal HaTanya says what you say but most say that it depends on the person’s abilities. Most don’t have the ability to sit and learn for an extended period of time but must be doing things. Or work or the Army or getting into trouble. Because the Chareidi establishment does not allow the first two they do the last.This is a big problem and thus there is a movement from the rank and file to change the diskette as we say in Israel.