Reply To: Question for those who don’t think Charedim should join the IDF

Sam Klien- “You asked what the chareidim are doing to help with the army if they can’t join the army, did I read that correctly?

Don’t you know that they are spending their time learning Torah and don’t you know how powerful it is and how much of a merit it is to help the Israeli army in this war?”

Do you know how powerful of a merit is is?

The protection that comes from limud Torah is lema’alah min hateva… it is supernatural and impossible to gauge the correlation between Talmud Torah and military success. That doesn’t mean it’s not true… it is part of our Mesorah.

But stop pretending that you know exactly how it works! Is it how you assume one to one? That every single person learning adds to the security even if it is at the expense of our natural hishtadlus of serving in the army? Or maybe it’s we have to have certain people learning and the rest serving on the front lines? Or maybe it’s that we need the zechus of Talmud Torah in our soldiers! That davka the talmidei chachamim should be serving and bring their zechsuim to the battle fields! (Evidence of that is how Moshe told Yehoshua to take the tzadikim to fight Amalek, Gidon in Sefer Shoftim davka took the best for his army against Midian, and the Gemara that says that Yoav had success in battle because of Dovid HaMelech’s Torah when we know from Tanach that Dovid HaMelech was ALSO a military warrior!)