A senior Breslover Rav warned that chassidim will hold large protests and disrupt the operations at Ben Gurion Airport if the plan being advanced by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to allow “draft dodgers” to travel to Uman is declared illegal.
The report comes after Israeli media reported that the IDF is preparing a large-scale arrest operation of Breslover “draft dodgers” at Ben-Gurion Airport.
“We are talking about hundreds and thousands who will stop the activity at Ben Gurion Airport and seek to leave in any way,” the Rav said. “No one will succeed in preventing a chassid from reaching his Rebbe.”
The Rav emphasized that “even the Rabbanim won’t have control over these young people. Protests will take place at Ben Gurion Airport and in front of the Attorney General’s house.”
Yisrael Porush, the chairman of the Magen U’Moshiah organization, said in an interview with Kol Chai that “if necessary, we will bring 20,000 people to the airport and block the place. If we don’t fly, no one will fly. What is permissible for the left is permissible for us. Right now, the Gedolei Yisrael have asked us not to do this, but it may still happen. Solutions are being worked on, but all options are still on the table.”
A source in Agudas Israel says, “I remind you that these are people who, during the COVID pandemic, when there were no flights, went through forests on foot or crossed frozen rivers with an inflatable boat. They are willing to invest a lot to reach the tzaddik. For them, it is a great mitzvah for which they are willing to give their lives, and they will shake the country if they try to stop them from flying.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Maybe these people will have the merit in finally ending the Zionist nightmare from which Jews worldwide suffer. As the Chazon Ish noted, one day we will wake up to find that the Zionist “State” simply no longer exists.
every day the Zionists make enemies of Yidden who were not previously anti Zionist.
This entire draft dodging and then claiming it’s because they are learning is totally absurd. Most of these guys are not sitting and learning. And more importantly, the “Chareidi” community in Israel is bigger than ever and BH growing. Who is going to fill the positions needed in the army? This must come from the population, but if they are all draft dodgers, how will this happen?
The Gemara teaches us that
(אין סומכין על הנס (קידושין לט
How does the current draft dodging fit with this Gemara?
Not to mention the משנה in אבות
ולא קרדום לחפור בה
Not to mention the huge חילול השם that is being perpetrated when the “Chareidim” claim that they are above the law of the land and above nature…
Sadly, this is a dangerous world and teaching extremism is very dangerous
If even 1 person is מחלל ראש-השנה because of a single delayed flight, the entire Breslov movement & trips to Uman, will be entirely blasphemous thru & thru as per the dictum of מצוה גוררת עבירה עבירה היא
Space it seems like a boorish threat of brute force but when you read more carefully into the verbiage, it definitely seems to be a well crafted sophisticated warning.
This is crazy (and if the craziness of it has to be explained to you then you are crazy too)
I have a much much better idea that doesn’t go over well in EY. How about just lie low for a little while. Don’t make it all about you. If you don’t go to Ukraine, a country that still hates your guts!, it’ll be okay. Stay home and have a real yom tov!
If even 1 person is מחלל ראש-השנה because of a single delayed flight, the entire Breslov movement & trips to Uman, will be entirely blasphemous thru & thru as per the dictum of מצוה גוררת עבירה עבירה היא
Ok we are digging up rabbi nachman from his grave and bringing him to the kotel