yossief -“More Torah = More Protection, is a nice phrase,”
My heart goes out to anybody who was Nifter/eres young.
But this is more than “a nice phrase”! The Torah says it quite clearly, even more than once -when once would have been enough, that learning Torah protects against the Tochecha (Holocaust).
And Not enough learning can bring Holocausts Ch’vs.
The Torah to me and many others is Not just a storybook -it’s our way of life. Even people like Ben-Gurion understood this and he agreed to – No draft for Charedim.
How could people like the Mizrachists/MO, who keep Shabbos, not understand as much as him?
I think the MO community has failed in teaching Torah properly in their communities!