Thousands of yeshiva bochurim and avreichim from the Ateret Shlomo mosdos participated on Tuesday evening at the chasunah of the son of the Rosh Yeshivah, HaGaon HaRav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin, and the granddaughter of HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Soloveitchik, which was held at the D-CITY hall in Ma’ale Adumim, near Jerusalem.
The chasunah was attended by Gedolei Yisrael, Roshei Yeshivos, and Rabbanim from all stripes of Chareidi society, including HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shternbuch, HaGaon HaRav Berel Dov Povarsky, HaGaon HaRav Eliezer Yehudah Finkel, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef, HaGaon HaRav Avraham Salim, HaGaon HaRav Shimon Galay, and many others
At the end of the chasunah, the bochurim gathered on bleachers on both sides of the hall, and in a sight reminiscent of a Chassidish chasunah, HaRav Sorotskin stood in the middle and led the singing and dancing. “The first Litvish Rebbe,” Hebrew Mishpacha editor Aryeh Erlich jokingly wrote.
At one point, singer Ahrele Samet, who is a Toldos Aharon chassid, began singing the Toldos Aharon song: “ד’ הוּא מַלְכֵּנוּ וְלוֹ אֲנַחְנוּ עֲבָדִים, הַתּוֹרָה הִיא אֱמוּנָתֵנוּ וּבָהּ אֲנַחְנוּ מַאֲמִינִים. בְּשִׁלְטֹון הַכּוֹפְרִים אֵין אָנוּ מַאֲמִינִים, אֵין אָנוּ מַאֲמִינִים וּבְחֻקּוֹתֵיהֶם אֵין אָנוּ מִתְחַשְּׁבִים, אֵין אָנוּ מִתְחַשְּׁבִים. בְּדֶרֶךְ הַתּוֹרָה נֵלֵךְ בָּאֵשׁ וּבַמַּיִם”.
But he sang the song with a twist: “ובשלטון הכופרים אין אנו מאמינים” [we don’t believe in the heretical government], “ובלשכותיהם אין אנו מתייצבים” [we won’t be recruited to their offices] – a reference to the current efforts to recruit bnei yeshivos – ending with “בדרך התורה נלך באש ובמים.”
Videos of the song posted by Israeli media outlets on Wednesday morning led to a political uproar, with politicians such as Yair Lapid and Avigdor Lieberman slamming the calls for draft evasion and Lieberman repeating the message in the bill his party proposed to take away voting rights for those who don’t serve: “Don’t enlist, don’t vote.”
According to a Kikar H’Shabbat report, not all bochurim agreed with the song’s message, with one bochur saying: “There is no doubt that there were crazy energies in the air and there was a feeling of unity that hadn’t been around for a long time, but it also grated on us a lot because we are in a sensitive period in the country, and the truth must be told – we are not really Neturei Karta or Peleg, and it was too extreme for me.”
Another bochur said: “I felt like I was at Har Sinai. There was a spirit of hisrommemus and a feeling that the entire Chareidi public is united under the instruction of HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau not to report to the recruitment office. The feeling was that this is everyone’s concern, even those who are not necessarily obligated to enlist.”
HaRav Shalom Ber also sang “וכל מאמינים” and “עוצה עצה ותופר”, among other songs. The dancing and singing continued until the wee hours of the morning.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Nice
Nothing like the hypocrisy of good old Yair Lapid, who due the protectsia of his politician father, had a cushy reporter job in the IDF paper ,despite not finishing high school.This was his service in the IDF but he always screams the loudest for Yeshiva students to stop learning and go fight in he IDF.
New religion!
I fail to see the logic in using your child’s wedding as a political rally and “sticking it to the chilonim” in a public forum. If you want to refuse going to army that is one thing. But since when do we dance up and down with joy publicly to spit in the face of those protecting you?
I recall the rally where Rav Shach created Degel HaTorah and described the rejection of Toarh from chilonim with tears in his eyes and had stop occasionally because of his sobbing. He was not jumping for joy.
It’s a mitzvah to make mockery of these shmadnik zionist thugs! As if voting has gotten us anywhere, let lieberman threaten all he wants! Voting hasn’t gotten the torah world more anything from them
Classic YWN clickbait. Nothing new here. This is sung by maaaaany people all over Eretz Yisrael. An uproar?! From Lapid and Lieberman YM”S?! c’mon… You’ll obviously find some disenchanted bachur wanting attention who will say “this didn’t feel right” or whatever
This article is pure clickbait. There’s nothing wrong with what they sang! Haha! You’re quoting the rasha Yair Lapid?? And a “report” from Kikar Shabbos that not all bochurim agreed to the song? Well guess what? That is what our gedolim believe, this is what all the gedolim are screaming about, that there’s a war on the Torah from the medina!