g_a_w:
Back to the original point. I’ll be honest I don’t know much novi so I don’t really know what the whole story is with Yoshiyahu. I’m lucky we did Shabbos last zman because the only thing I know about him is from 56b “kol ha’omer Yoshiyahu chata eino ele ta’ah”. But it was a second seder gemarah and agadita, so I don’t know what it is referring to.
I will admit that the Yerushalmi is referring to ‘guardians’ not an army. Meaning that while there might not be a need for a defensive battalion, an army is needed for offense.
However, there is still a significant difference between those armies and the IDF. Namely, the Sanhedrin and the Urim V’Tumim.
Whether you hold that Israel had a right to forcefully take the country with an army or not, at this point the IDF is primarily a defensive structure.
I will add though, that since the Yerushalmi seems to suggest that the limud haTorah that takes place in a city protects all the emmebrs of the city (even those not learning) it could be that the IDF serves to protect those cities and towns in the country that do not have any lomdim in them.
But even then, what comes out is that taking boys out of the beis medrish to go to the army is having the exact opposite effect of what is intended.
ItcheSrulik:
It doesn’t matter. I don’t know what he wrote about, but there are plenty of other seforim on a wide variety of topics that are 100% kosher for me that I don’t feel deprived enough to have to pick up a sefer that is only 98% kosher.