Following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday morning ordering the government to enlist bnei Torah, Kikar H’Shabbat quoted what HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl, said in 2011, when the Supreme Court decided to invalidate the Chareidi draft law enacted in the early 2000s, the Tal Law.
At the time. HaRav Chaim was asked for his opinion on the court’s ruling.
HaRav Chaim, z’tl, quoted the Gemara in Kesuvos: “אמר רבי ירמיה בר אבא, דור שבן דוד בא, קטגוריא בתלמידי חכמים.”
Referring to the politicians who were denouncing the Chareidim at the time, HaRav Chaim said: “שומר השם את כל אוהביו ואת כל הרשעים ישמיד”
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Once full-scale war broke out after the State of Israel declared its existence on May 14, 1948 [CE] Reb Shraga Feivel’s [Mendlowitz] thoughts were never far from Eretz Yisrael.
A group of students saw him outside the Mesivta building one day, talking excitedly with Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr and gesticulating rapidly with the newspaper held in his hand.
“If I were your age,” he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] told the students,
“I would take a gun and go to Eretz Yisrael.”
SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of Torah in America (chapter 26, page 338) by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana, ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965
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Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was the founder of Torah U’Mesorah and became principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in year 1921 CE. His career in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas lasted 25 years. He was known as “the premier architect of Torah in American history.” He left this world in 1948 CE at the age of 62 years.
SQUARE_ROOT :
“full-scale war” was a direct and totally existential – the arabs wanted and were about to carry out a massacre on Israel (r”l).
Reb Chaim was a godul and he most likely understood things just as well as Reb SF Mendelowitz ztz”l. I’m not convinced that the lattewr would disagree with Reb Chaim either.
The greatest peril to our nation today is the State of Israel because you have today an organized group of atheists, they are atheists — and they are not just atheists like the man in the street is an atheist who doesn’t care — they are interested in wiping out Torah Judaism from the world. And they have today more power than any atheist ever had before. It’s the power of a nation….People in America are asleep. They don’t have any idea what is taking place. They think that these Orthodox Jews are too pious, too extreme. And the people in Israel, or the government, they don’t mean any wrong, they want to build up the state, only they are not Orthodox, but they have nothing against Orthodoxy. Nothing is further from the truth. They are actively interested in stamping out every vestige of Torah. They don’t want any Judaism. They want a brand new kind of ideology called Israel. (Rabbi Avigdor Miller, “001 – Singing in the World,” 1:25:45)
Some people are proposing to take frum boys into the army in frum regiments. You should know that it’s a shtus. The army is made לכתחילה for the purpose of changing the minds of the boys in the army. It’s a statement they made long ago. It’s very long. And it’s only a trick that they are using now to deceive the frummah into entering the army. (Rabbi Avigdor Miller, “E-253-Fortunate Are You,” 1:15:52)
SQUARE_ROOT that’s because a war broke out. There’s no war today. And today you don’t just grab a gun and fight. The military fights with you and owns you. So wake up.
@Square_Root: IF this story is true, he obviously didn’t realise to true intentions of the Zionists. But anyway, NONE of the Gedolim at the time ordered their students to go and fight.
@SQUARE_ROOT obviously he meant to shoot Zionists