Kikar Shabbat is reporting that HaGaon HaRav Aaron Leib Shteinman Shlita has instructed roshei yeshiva to send talmidim home as well from yeshivos in Netivot and Tifrach.
The gadol hador also advises those residents lacking adequate protection to move to the center of the country if possible before the heavy response begins.
Additionally, the Belzer Rebbe Shlita has instructed talmidim in the southern areas to leave immediately and head for safe areas. This includes yeshivos in Ashdod and Chelkiya.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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And if the talmid lives in Beer Sheva or Ashdod is that safer? or Kiryat Malachi or outskirts of Yavneh? The missiles have a capability to strike a large distance.
IS THE NORTH SAFE? The Golan is a match ready to light and the Northern most kehillos are in range of Syria and Hizbullah. So where should a person go?
They didn’t say all people should leave their homes, its just the Yeshivas are moving to the center in order to continue learning uninterrupted.
Many people on this site commented that the chareidim in Israel are ‘doing their part’ by learning while the soldiers are fighting. I do agree that we need an army of people learning. However, I suggested at the time that everyone would take the chareidi efforts more seriously if they showed an effort to be brothers with their soldier counterparts. Instead, the chareidi movement makes great effort in distancing themselves.
At this crucial and dangerous time – with many of our soldiers going to war TO PROTECT ALL OF US, CHARIEDIM INCLUDED – it’s time to step up to the plate. I have yet to hear of chareidi rabbonim holding emergency tehillim sessions or learning sessions for the protection of our citizens in the South or our soldiers fighting to protect us all. In fact, the only thing I’ve heard was some rabbonim ‘paskening’ that the chareidi yeshiva boys and avreichim should leave the yeshivas & kollels in the South!
Where are the outcries about “emptying the yeshivas and kollels!?!?!” I understand the possibility that the yeshiva boys and avreichim can learn somewhere outside of the immediate war zone. However, I don’t understand why they don’t feel it necessary to stand up and support our soldiers who are obviously flying INTO that very war zone to protect ALL OF US, INCLUDING THOSE VERY YESHIVA BOYS & AVREICHIM! Hold an assifa or kenes or emergency prayer rally in the heart of Meah Shearim… or even in Tel Aviv! Now, THAT would be a Kiddush Hashem!
Don’t take this as a blanket fact…my nephew is in yeshiva in Netivot and Rav Shteinman told them to stay for now.
I agree with RBSJew:
I was having a discussion today with a couple of people and I was saying how I dislike labels. So regardless what we label ourselves as (Chareidi, Dati Leumi, Modern Othodox, Chardal…) we should all Daven for the success of the Jewish soldiers defending everyone in Eretz Yisroel.
Are we to understand that as one army mobilizes to confront the enemy, another “army” is fleeing to safety at the behest of leaders who speak in Hashem’s name?
I only hope shimonhakohain is right.