At a special event held at Me’or HaTalmud Yeshiva following the arrest of the newlywed avreich Avraham Ben Dayan, HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau declared unequivocally that no ben yeshiva will join the army in any framework.
“The entire Jewish world is shocked by the abominable act in which the wicked authorities imprisoned an outstanding avreich whose entire world is nothing but the four amos of halacha, and this, solely because of his ratzon to learn Torah,” HaRav Landau said. “But the precious avreich has merited that in his zechus, there has been such a great hissorerus for limmud Torah b’rabbim and since merit is brought about through one who is worthy (מגלגלין זכות על ידי זכאי), apparently he has great zechuyos.”
“While he sits behind lock and key, bound in iron chains, the voice of Torah, which grows stronger and stronger as a result of his imprisonment, echoes from one end of the world to the other, shattering walls of falsehood, smashing chains of wickedness, and breaking through to the Kisei Hakavod, and proclaiming the groans of Bnei Yisrael from the suffering inflicted by their oppressors and persecutors.”
“The Olam HaTorah is now undergoing terrible persecution at the hands of wayward brothers. The fears are heavy and shared by many. Their schemes are no longer carried out in secret but openly, and their entire aim is to eradicate the Olam HaTorah, rachmanah litzlan.”
“To those evildoers and plotters of wickedness who seek to break our spirit and to rob us of the delight of our world, we say clearly: Don’t imagine that you will succeed! In complete contrast to you, we are people of noble spirit; our hands will not wreak harm, and we don’t wish to use your instruments of strife. But know that your standing against lomdei Torah is a war against Netzach Yisrael.”
“History is full of those who sought to make the Torah be forgotten from Yisrael. They have vanished from the world, their names were forgotten, and their rule passed like a fleeting shadow. But the Torah stands forever. You have no power to break one whose life is nothing but spirit. Your time will pass and your rule will sink away, but we will continue to cleave to our eternal Torah, which is the Toras Hashem. And there is no one who can stand against the Toras Hashem—against Lomdei Torah and the Heichalei HaTorah. Jailers can imprison the body, but there is no power in the world that can imprison the spirit.”
“We hereby declare loudly: whether the authorities agree to this or not—not even one avreich, not even one ben yeshivah, will go to the army—not in this way and not in any other way,” HaRav Landau emphasized. “The place of lomdei Torah is only within the halls of yeshivos and kollelim. Everyone should know—whether one understands it or doesn’t understand it—this is the fact. This is how it was, and this is how it will be.”
“May it be Hashem’s will that the shlichim of the Olam HaTorah who were imprisoned emerge quickly from darkness to light, and may we all merit all good, to learn Torah in quiet and tranquility,” the Rosh Yeshivah concluded.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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17 Responses
It’s time to bring about the downfall and end of the evil Zionist State.
Amein.
Woohoo! Give a finger and they want a hand. Give them zero
From the venerated Rabbi’s mouth to G-d’s Ears
The pork eating fat cat leftist army elite with their racist Supreme Court knows their days are numbered. How many of these older leftist have their kids living in california or India. I met an eighty year old secular Israeli man once in Tel Aviv. He was so sad that he has not seen his son in twenty years as his son lives in California. Poor guy all alone. When he dies who will be at his funeral. Who will say kiddish for him. This is what the original Zionist wanted. A nation without values. Their idealism was to live in a kibbutz throwing away Judaism. The new generation got smart . why work like a dog when we can hire foreigners to do the hard work. The next generation that grew up totally ignorant of Judaism find themselves traveling through India and Europe. The only ones in the majority remaining are the Chareidim. Soon we will be the majority.
again, and again, R Landau is telling you – bnei yeshiva should learn, and not go to the army. He is not saying anything about those who are not in the yeshiva. Hopefully, the members of the community who are not currently learning, should hear the Rav’s message.
bikeish yaakov leisheiv bishalva kofatz alov rogzo shel hatzionim
lo dayom lachareidim ma shemesukan lahem liolam habah, elah shemivakshim leisheiv bishalvah bemedinat hatzionim
Thank you for translating this. I feel very inspired, and hopeful for my son who sits and learns all day!
Who writes the speeches for Rav Landau shlita?
מלכות הזר לעם ישראל, ימים על ימי מלך תוסף שנותיו בכל דור ודור
Which people does Rav Landau want to protect the country where he sits comfortable protected because of the histadlut of so may brave religious and non religious young men?
Does he want only non religious people to protect him or is he ok for religious people as long as they don’t learn 24/7?
Does he also not want people who learn for an hour a day to go ?
His public remarks only exacerbate the chillul Hashem while his opinions is respected he should keep it quiet and not fan the flames of chillul Hashem because it doesn’t look good that certain Jews shouldn’t have to protect the homeland that they benefit from and reside in. At the very least he should highlight “no one should serve in the army until th religious units get XYZ”. But for him to just state generally not to serve this is chillul Hashem And I take upon myself any repercussions for posting my opinion as a laymen against a great torah scholar.
Yes YWN, do you have the guts to post, or will this be censored out in your pravda perspective of what to print?
Moderators Note: You seem to be daring YWN to post the most vile disgusting Chutzpah birabim against the Gadol Hador. Are you daring the Chofetz Chaim Shmiras Halashon also? Not only did you post this, but you posted it TWICE. If you are so proud of what you wrote, why don’t you sign your name, or should we do it for you, and write who you are instead of hiding behind your screenname in your medical facility? Why the secret? If you are going to smear the gadol hador, at least do it proudly and sign your name.
The disconnect between what is being described in the speech and the actual situation on the ground is remarkable. It is not the “Olam haTorah” that is under attack, and the issue is not individuals’ “desire to learn Torah” – it is the fact that there is, unfortunately, a real need to defend against those who would happily slaughter all Jews (yes, including Chareidim), and such defense requires people. The refusal of the speaker to assume ANY responsibility at all for this defense (and Halacha clearly contemplates the need for PHYSICAL defense) is causing a massive Chilul Hashem and hatred – yes, real hatred – of Chareidim. This is incredibly unfortunate.
Why do I post here? It is because I see it as critical to at least (civilly) present an alternate Torah-based perspective for people here to consider, even if they don’t agree with it. YWN has more often than not allowed my posts through, and I hope they’ll let this one through too.
an Israeli Yid
ujm, your request will be met by God with a change; God will replace reshit tzimichat geulotainu by you.
SupremeAI, the gloves are off with them arresting and jailing our guys endlessly and treating them worse than filth,, the last thing on our side we need to worry about is chilul hashem. Let them worry about it. It’s like saying jews shouldn’t sneak tefillin on in aushwitz because it’ll offend the Germans if they see
supremeAi:
You have it backwards. Rav Landau obviously knows about “hishtadlus” far better than you do.
The Torah learners will always be protected, “State” or not, as was clearly shown on 10/7, as it happens. The wicked heretics who chose to make and maintain their “State” there are the ones who foolishly put themselves in a position to need an army.
He also knows the definition of “chilul Hashem”, unlike your post. Would you know where in halacha to even find the parameters of Chilul Hashem? Maybe you should, before throwing around halachic terms inappropriately.
The people constantly angry at religious people should save some of their anger for all the leftists that have been ruining Israeli policy for 80 years. Whether it was Sharon’s stupidity, or Olmert, Rabin, bennett,, ehud Barak or that complete moron moshe dayan who invited all the Arabs after the war to stay. If you want to see where all the Jewish blood got spilled from those are the names. And the Supreme Court today that continues their legacy
Ever since Rav Dov Landau didn’t just say something negative about R. Shai Graucher. He condemned him in the harshest terms. He described him as a mazzik gamur, a “totally destructive person.” And he declared that this should be publicized. I lost my respect for Rav Landau. I think he’s so isolated from people’s day to day lives, holed up totally in his Torah surroundings. That’s great, but you can’t pasken for a Klal when you have no idea what’s happening outside of your “bubble” except for what his handlers tell him with their biased spin. Yes YWN, do you have the guts to post, or will this be censored out in your pravda perspective of what to print? YWN, Now you dared me? Yes sure I give you full permission to put name in, There’s no such thing as human infallibility even for Gadol!
(I’m still waiting for you to post my Emes, using my real name, go for it!)