The Hebrew-language Hamodia newspaper, affiliated with the Gerrer chassidus, published a sharply worded notice on Thursday following the historic asifah of Gedolei Yisrael against the conscription of bnei yeshivos on Wednesday evening.
The notice states: “ENOUGH. The asifah made it clear—you crossed the line, and the Rabbanim are now taking responsibility. The politicians were not mentioned at the event, even in passing.”
“The pain, the outcry, the exploitation, and the injustice are irrational and unbearable.”
“The Gedolei Yisrael warn against those who dare to harm a lomeid Torah.”
“It was made clear [at the asifah] that there will be no quotas or targets, not 50% and not 2%. The talks and discussions above and under the table are over. There will also be no sanctions, and all discussions on the matter are irrelevant.”
“A significant change in circumstances has occurred, and the Chassidic communities are cooperating with extremist circles (k’naim), understanding that the opposing side has crossed all boundaries.”
“There is a clear statement being made for the first time in the Chassidic communities, which is being conveyed to the entire public, that the army is completely unacceptable and no young Chareidi should be intimidated or tempted by it.”
“There are firm statements here, along with a kind of preparation of the public for acts of mesiras nefesh.”
“The Rabbanim are clearly announcing that the asifah was not the end of the struggle but just the beginning. The Rabbanim will examine the situation and act. In other words, in the struggle between the authorities and the Chareidi public, they have left the political arena and the Knesset and moved to the streets and the people—via the Gedolei Yisrael.”
“For the first time in years, due to the magnitude of the hour, there will be a fast and a general day of tefillah with abstention from work (ביטול מלאכה), and some are talking about a million-man protest.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Yes sir. That’s going to make a lot of friends with the Likud and Daati Leumi base who they need as their allies. The lack of foresight is mind blowing.
“The pain, the outcry, the exploitation, and the injustice are irrational and unbearable.”
You’d think that such a sentence would be describing the hundreds dead, the thousands maimed, the endless thousands suffering PTSD and collapsing businesses and collapsing family life due to their endless service in order to protect everyone in Israel. But no.
Looks like the “mainstream” Chareidim are admitting that the “kanaim” were right all along, for the past ten years or so.
And now all Chareidim are joining Peleg.
great. from politics to the street – not to yeshiva where they say they are immersed.bh- many more chareidim are joining this war effort.iyh they will be victorious and safe.
Ujm, u saved me writing a similar post.
Why are they “moving it to the streets”? Surely if they believe that Torah protects, they should be doubling down in the Beis HaMidrash?
rav michoel yehuda lefkowitz ztl who passed away in 2011 already said “the satmar rebbe ztl was right” to oppose the medina from the get go not to take any money or be beholden to them in any way
rav ahron ztl held by joining and being part of the govt ,they can stop the worst gezeyros from within it lasted for 70 years but ultimately the parties over now the satmar rav ztl was proven right the zionists cant be trusted and were just leading the religious parties on until they said if you dont pass the law where out
Any association with Peleg is going to be the immediate downfall of the plans of the Chareidim or בני-ישיבה who make horrifying tragedy of aligning themselves with Peleg
@Yissacher
the outcry is exactly because of all the death and destruction that zionism has brought the Jewish (and non-Jewish) people. Yet people still send their boys to go off and die in support of that evil violent cult called IDF, may the evil people be quickly destroyed and the innocent ones escape their clutches
Please all arm chair quarter backs close your mouths and stop offering your brilliant opinions about gedolim who know and understand “a little “ more than you it must be understood by the evil politicians that the same way you despise the duplicity of Hamas/arabs. Your shenanigans with an attempt to undermine Torah values is no less deplorable and wil bring about divine retribution for anyone who cares to remember baraks “bold” call for a secular revolution and he got intifada which bounced the idiot out of office
They seem to be in favor of direct action rather than learning and davening so that the zechus will make all puranos go away. If they really, truly believed in the power of their Torah and Tefila, then why are they abandoning them to take to the streets? Elah mai, they are showing by their actions that they DON’T believe that their learning and davening are the sufficient – action is necessary.
So then comes the question – so why is it that they insist that their learning is enough of an effort against bloodthirsty savages who are quite open in stating that their goal is to kill Jews – not Israelis, not Zionists, but Jews? For people who supposedly spend all day debating the Torah using logic, their arguments against serving are sorely lacking.
an Israeli Yid