Ohr Chodesh, you wrote “It’s the non-Torah learners who are not giving sufficiently.”
I guess over 20,000 lives given to protect Am Yisroel isn’t giving sufficiently in your cheshbon.
And I will illuminate two of those 20,000.
Major Roi Klein z’l was a Golani brigade deputy commander. He was a Hesder Yeshiva graduate, He was killed in the 2006 2nd Lebanon War, in an ambush among the houses of Bint Jbail, a large village in southern Lebanon. Hezbullah terrorists killed eight soldiers, including Roi, and injured nearly two dozen.
There were two other soldiers next to Roi. A hand grenade was thrown at them and Roi shouted, “Grenade!” He then threw his body over it, sacrificing his life for the sake of his soldiers, who later attributed being alive to his act of selflessness.
In his last seconds of life, Roi mustered the strength to shout “Shema Yisroel” the prayer that Jews have prayed for centuries, declaring our belief in G-d and in a better world; the prayer that so many Jewish martyrs throughout the generations called out as they were being led to their deaths.
Here is the story of one of those “not giving sufficiently” who I knew personally. Steve Auerbach wasn’t frum, though he was traditional. He didn’t study in Yeshiva like Roi Klein did. He was, however, one of the best soldiers Israel ever produced. He was nicknamed “Guns”, because he was probably the best shot with small arms in the IDF and Magav. He was an instructor for the YAMAM anti terror commando unit. On the morning of May 18, 2003, he was on a bus in the French Hill neighborhood. He saw a man get on the bus dressed as a chareidi, but he immediately knew something was wrong. The man was pale and nervous. The bus was half full, But Steve knew, he told me, as he rode this bus often, that the next stop would have a large crowd of Bais Yaakov girls heading to school, and this guy was no chareidi. He began to draw his weapon and shouted to people to get down. The bomber detonated (early, as he had wanted to do so on the full bus as it made its way further into yerushalayim). seven people died, but dozens were saved. Steve was severely injured, leaving him a quadriplegic for the next seven years, until his death from his injuries in 2010. Steve had a hard time dealing with his injury, but he said he would do it again if he was in the same position. He loved the Jewish people. After his injury He spoke to hundreds if not thousands of young Jews about Eretz Yisrael and Ahavat Yisrael. He traveled around the world – even as a quadriplegic, more than once, to raise funds for sport therapy for children disabled by terror in Israel.
I knew Steve. He was a “non-Torah learner”, as you put it. You spit on his memory (and that of Roi Klein, who was a Torah learner as well as being a soldier, and those of over 20,000 more, frum and not frum, learners and not learners) by saying that he did not give sufficiently.
I’m not going to call you names, though, and I have ahavas achim for you even though I disagree with you. I just hope you learn something about those who “don’t give sufficiently”.