Reply To: The Killing of Nahal Haredi Soldiers and the Anti Draft Protests

“The Chareidi boys serve in the Yeshiva. The soldiers should be grateful for them.”

How so? If you are going to tell me that their learning protects the soldiers — I am willing to accept that if — you sign a pledge not to go to a doctor if you are ill. Meaning — if it is just learning that works to protect — then the same should go for health. (The Mishnah is clear, as you know, that it is a combination of actual fighting with prayer). When these boys do NOT serve — someone is putting their life on the line for them. Learning in Yeshiva is the same? There is a danger? There is sacrifice other than perhaps financial? Again, i am not even saying that all of them should serve, I am just saying that the community should be grateful that others are literally giving of their lives — for them.