Reply To: Middah Kineged Middah?

ROB:

“There is absolutely no HETTER of talmud torah for anyone when it is a milchemes mitzvah.”

You seem to be assuming that anything the IDF does has the status of a milchemes mitzva; that’s not so pashut. Also, the IDF does not actually need the Chareidim to defend the country; the chillonim are doing it just fine on their own.

“to feed one’s wife and family is a d’oraisa”

That’s very different from what you said before. Before you said thee is a chiyuv di’Oraysa to “work to feed his family”, while now you’re saying that there is merely a chiyuv to feed one’s family (which, seeing as there are no Chareidim starving on the streets, it’s rather hard to argue is being ignored).

“As far as your point of American aid, without it, you are your own boss in many spheres and may be an advantage”

An advantage worth three billion dollars a year? I wish that was true, but I simply don’t think it is. (And if it was, why haven’t the Israelis have stopped taking American aid till now?)