Dear Kotlorism,
Based on your comment it is clear that you are completely uninformed about what is going on in Eretz Yisroel.
There is a clear disagreement between the Gedolei Hador about how to fight for religious Jews not to go to the army.This is a well known fact for the past 15 years since the nachal hachareidi was started with the supposed approval of Maran Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman Shlit”a (Rav Shteinman later wrote a letter that it was originally created only for Mechalelai Shabbos and Chayavei Krisos) at that time letters came out from many of the Gedolei Hador including: Rav michel Yehudah Lefkowitz, Rav Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, Rav Michel Feinstein, Rav Chaim Pinchas Sheinberg, Rav Dovid Soloveitchik, and Rav Shmuel Auerbach and many others strongly disagreeing to any discussion of compromise in this area. A few years ago when the law was past that the government will have to put in a half a billion shekel into trying to get chareidim to come to the army there was a Shayla how to fight it Rav Yigal Rosen a close confidant of Rav Shteinman published a letter in the Yated Neeman explaining that Rav Shteinman is in the midst of deciding what to do about the law, he explains that although they are not planning on drafting anyone now and all they want is that everyone should come to the Lishka Hagiyus to get a deferment, on the surface there seems to be no problem, however, it is not at all simple, because in the meanwhile they are trying to get as many weak bochurim as they can and eventually that will make it much easier for them to forcibly draft a large part of the Yeshiva world, therefore perhaps we should fight it now, by not registering even for a deferment, he writes that Rav Shteinman has been looking into the Shayla for a few weeks and has not yet decided. Eventualy, Rav Aharon Leib was quoted as saying that Bochurim should continue getting a deferment. Rav Shmuel however disagrees and with him are hundreds of Roshei Yeshiva and Rabbonim.
A very cheap way of getting away from the fact that there is a machlokes between 2 gedolei hador is to say that ” a few reshaim ” convinced R’ Shmuel.
It’s interesting that you don’t have a problem saying that a few Reshaim were able to convince Rav Shmuel, who gives Shiurim publicly a few times a week and anyone can approach him and talk to him, but you can’t hear that maybe a few people convinced Rav Shteinman who is a 104, doesn’t ever speak publicly and it is impossible for the public to get to talk to him for more than a Bracha. I protest the lack of Kavod Hatorah to write on a Yeshiva website that a few people can convince -either Rav Shteinman or Rav Shmuel- to do what they want.
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