Following Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s announcement on Tuesday that the IDF will begin issuing draft orders to the Chareidi sector in the coming month, urgent meetings were held at the homes of HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau and HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch.
The Gedolim said firmly that any yeshivah bochurim who receive draft orders will be instructed not to appear at the enlistment office under any circumstances – until a draft law is passed that is accepted by the Charedi public
HaRav Hirsch said: “This is a matter of mesirus nefesh. It’s not an ordinary campaign – we’ve endured many religious battles over the years but it’s a battle of mesirus nefesh now – even if bochurim must go to prison.”
Rav Hirsch added: “The instructions of HaGaon HaRav Shteinman, z’tl, to report to the enlistment office applied only when there was a discussion with the Chareidi public. At the moment that there’s no discussion and they reject every proposal, then there is no discussion on our part as well.”
HaRav Landau met with the head of the Vaad Yeshivos, Rav Chaim Aharon Kaufman, on Wednesday.
“A state that drafts bnei yeshivos has no zechus to exist,” HaRav Landau said during the meeting. “At a time of war, they want to take away the zechus of lomdei Torah – this is complete suicide.”
“When there’s no agreement and the army is at war against us, what’s the point of reporting [to the enlistment center]?” HaRav Landau continued. “For what?”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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“The Gedolim said firmly that any yeshivah bochurim who receive draft orders will be instructed not to appear at the enlistment office under any circumstances – until a draft law is passed that is accepted by the Charedi public”
Now everybody say together: “Peleg Yerushalmi were right!”
So, the rav seems to be firmly for drafting only charedim that are not currently in the yeshiva?
Who could possibly disagree with such well-reasoned and articulated public policy?
“any yeshivah bochurim who receive draft orders will be instructed not to appear at the enlistment office under any circumstances – until a draft law is passed that is accepted by the Charedi public..”
Perhaps the Rav forgot that 85% of Israeli citizens do not identify as Charedi and their acceptance of any new draft law is also necessary to its implementation. I doubt that drafting only those Charedi bochurim who are not in Yeshiva, as suggested by the Rav, will be acceptable to the majority of Israelis.
It’s time to peacefully dismantle the Zionist State.
What the rabbanim are saying is is that any Bochur who wants to be in yeshiva whether he is or wants to be, vis a vis the idf will be instructed if he asks, not to report even if it means going to prison
This is a gezeirah of shmad against Yiddishkeit and they are going to the head of the snake the yeshivos hakedoshos to effect the entire future and foundation of kedusha of am Yisrael
Am yisrael chai, visheim reshaim yirkav!
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Who says? He happened to be discussing yeshiva boys.
Is prison such a bad idea?
They can setup Yeshivas in the prisons & the State is covering their cost of housing, food, clothes, medical care, etc.
The Bucherim will be able to really Shteig with no distractions.
I think the Gedolim should work on a plan to ensure every Talmid is sent to prison.
Note that this statement ignores all the Torah being learned in places other than Chareidi Yeshivos – whether in Yeshivot Hesder, by retirees, or by those who are still too young to draft (after all, we say that the world survives because of “hevel pihem shel tinokos shel beis raban”). Somehow, the State’s zechus to exist is based solely on the purported learning taking place in Chareidi Yeshivos, to the exclusion of anything else – be it other learning or the other two legs the world stands on – Avoda and Gemilus Chasadim.
There’s an old saying that to a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The “hammer” here is the edifice built over the years around Chareidi young men sitting in Yeshiva on the government’s shekel – so those who are leading that establishment see every problem as something that can and should be solved through the increase in the size of their hammer, and scream when someone proposes that perhaps, in a particular situation, another tool may be the correct one to use.
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