HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, and other Gedolei Yisrael, Roshei Yeshivos, and Rabbanim attended a reception in Bnei Brak on Sunday evening celebrating the release of two yeshiva bochurim from military prison—Yitzchak Revivo of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Ozer and Yair Saada of Yeshivas Kisei Rachamim.
HaRav Landau said at the event, “How fortunate you are that you were arrested because of words of Torah…we are filled with appreciation for the steadfast stand, on the one hand against temptations and on the other against hardships, and we express our admiration for their declaration: ‘Many waters cannot extinguish the love with which we love the Torah.’
“When HaRav Amram Blau was imprisoned (for protesting Chillul Shabbos), the Chazon Ish came to visit him and told him, ‘It is not Rav Amram who is in prison—the Shabbos itself is in prison!’”
“When a ben yeshivah is placed in prison solely because he desires to learn Torah, it is not he who is in prison! The Torah itself, rachmanah litzlan, is in prison!”
“Let everyone who is a partner to this crime—casting the Torah HaKedoshah, the Toras Hashem, behind bars—know this: you’re not fighting against flesh and blood; you’re fighting against the Torah and against the One who gave it, Yisbarach Shemo, rachmanah litzlan.”
“Sadly, we are in Galus among Jews, and we all daven that Hashem will help us and soon redeem us from this Galus so that we may study Torah in peace and security,” HaRav Landau concluded.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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4 Responses
It’s like telling eisav vetaryag mitzvos shemarti, he probably said woupdee du
lbj:
Obviously not, or Yaakov wouldn’t have bothered telling him. Esav was not some godless Zionist; he learned Torah from Yitzchak Avinu.
That corrupt witch is a traitor that nobody could get rid of because the court is her best friends. Even after so many times being caught doing something conflict of interest or undermining the government
Hiddush??? The fight began 150 years ago.
But if hareidim wish to fight the zionists, they should consider how they would run the country and how to make peace with the Palestinians. We can’t effectively oppose the hilonim unless we can offer a proposal for an Eretz Yisrael without the hiloni economy and hiloni military.