By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com

It was a complex Hilchos Shabbos question.� Or so it seemed.� A supply truck had arrived on a Shabbos with replacement uniforms for the soldiers.� Rav Ra�am HaCohen presented the halachic query to Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt�l.

Rav Ra�am explained that there was no doubt that the unifroms had arrived from beyond Tchum Shabbos.� There was the other issue of the uniforms having been transferred from one reshus to another reshus on Shabbos � where there was no Eiruv.� It was also possible that the driver may have purposefully violated Shabbos (B�meizid). And yet, it could also have been that it was a shogeg violation.

Rav Shlomo Zalman reacted in a manner that Rav Ra�am had never seen before. �He truly became angry at me. He spoke with unprecedented firmness and said emotionally, �A soldier in war whose clothing is dirty, YOU GO AND TRAVEL ON SHABBOS AND BRING HIM CLEAN CLOTHING!� OTHERWISE, HE WILL NOT FIGHT WELL!�

The incident is cited in �HaTorah HaMesameches p. 161.�

There is, of course, widespread unity among Klal Yisroel now.� Shuls across the country offered special tefilow and prayers to those soldiers defending against the attacks coming from Gaza.� May Klal Yisroel experience yeshuos and nechamos.

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