7 Responses

1. Perhaps this entertainer Fried will bring these neshomos back on the derech.

2. UJM: Let it go….these “neshomos” are among many from all hashkafahs who are keeping EY safe. You can hate the politicians but these guys are risking their lives every day simply by wearing the uniform. They can take responsibility for their own neshamas.
   P.S. Avram Fried is just one incredible yid. I last saw him in Buenos Aries several years ago when he appeared in a fundraising concert for the Jewish Community Center which as you know was the target of a major terrorist incident years ago. He kept going for hours and had the entire audience screaming for him to keep going and it was nearly midnight local time.

3. Ujm
   Perhaps Hashem won’t punish you for your disgusting comments right before rosh hashana

4. These soldiers’ observance looks the way it does because their parents have had the same perspective as ujm…they eventually realized that this Judaism (which they assume to be the true version, since that’s how they were raised) is full of nonsense and refuse to take anything seriously because of this childhood trauma.

   It’s people like Avraham Fried who gives them a tiny bit of a taste of the authentic Yiddishkeit which their souls so desperately need.

5. When I attended my son’s beret ceremony for the Kfir Brigade (of which Netzach Yehuda are part of). The boys from Netzach led the entire crowd in “Ani Maamin”, at the end of the ceremony. It was beautiful and moving, even those supposedly non-Torani Jew has tears in their eyes. When Moshiach reveals himself, G-d willing today, I would not be surprised if he served in Netzach or Hesder.

6. 1818: Don’t count on it.

7. Ysiegel – Those soldiers are exemplars of ‘authentic Yiddishkeit’. We should all learn from them.