Reply To: Would you choose army or kollel?

choppy- while I understand your logic, I can also understand why the Chilonim are upset with that logic. Whether it’s their fault or not, they don’t understand the value of Torah. Therefore, they can’t understand why some people get to dodge their national responsibility by learning Torah. I am not upset with Plesener or any other secular Jew who would rather see Chareidim in the army than in the Beis Medrash. They don’t understand the value of Torah, and we haven’t done a good job showing it to them. Why should they allow Charedim to do something that is in their eyes not so valuable, while their own children are risking their lives on the battlefield?