Arrangements were made for members of the family from Brazil to enter the Israel Air Force base near Mitzpei Ramon for a hachnasas Sefer Torah for the Sefer Torah donated by the family. Talmidei yeshiva were also given entry passes to permit them to participate in the simcha and the philanthropist was also flipping the bill for a seuda that would follow the event for all the participants, military and civilian alike, at a price of over NIS 20,000. The arrangements were made by the rav on the air force base.
Less than 24 hours before the event, an order was received from Chief of Manpower branch Major-General Chaggai Tupolinsky canceling the event on the base. The decision was reversed after political pressure was applied inside and outside of the military. However, while Tupolinsky backed down from the original cancelation, he prohibited the traditional singing and dancing that accompanies a hachnasas Sefer Torah as well as the large seuda.
It is pointed out that since the donor family is in the midst of a mourning year, the arrangements did not include a music truck as is traditional in Israel, and the hachnasas Sefer Torah was going to be singing and dancing without musical accompaniment but relying on the voices of the talmidim.
The donor family from Brazil took part in a seuda following the hachnasas Sefer Torah, albeit in Dimona, not in the air force base. According to talmidei yeshiva who were present, Tupolinsky sent personnel to the event to make certain his instructions are adhered to.
It was explained that one may hold a “modest ceremony that includes walking a bit with the Torah in hand, but a large event with musical accompaniment is prohibited”. Manpower Branch personnel were instructed to video the event as to document it and any breach from Tupolinsky’s orders.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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How much longer will it take for my Religious brethren( Gadolhador, ziongate, zionflag, rabbi of Berlin) to get the hint.
Seriously guys, between the beard shaving orders, Ofir Winter, condoms for inductees, what else do you need to prove that the IDF doesn’t want yiddishkeit.
The Brazilian philanthropist should have given the 20,000 to a Satmar Kollel.
I heard of footing the bill, but what is flipping the bill?
the goverment is corupted
Flip the bill –
An arcane expression meaning you will pay for something in full. It harkens back to ye olden days when people carried billfolds instead of a VISA card, and they flipped a greenback out of the billfold to pay for something.
Don’t worry about dinner, I’ll flip the bill.
#1,
Before I get the hint, I’d like to see the full story, and so far I haven’t been able to find any corroboration.
Any news item that comes from an anti-Zionist source, is becheskas propaganda until shown otherwise.
” The decision was reversed after political pressure was applied inside and outside of the military.” ??!
Prima facie evidence , please.
#1
Satmar kollel?
You know very well that the Satmar Rebbe urged his Chassidim to go out and work, not sit in kollels except for the very few who really belong there.
Please, don’t try to bamboozle those of us who are old enough to know what happened. We’re not all millenials, you know.
It;s difficult to Justify saying that the IDF wants to be inclusive to the needs of the frum klal, when they do these types of things.
Fact: They only reversed the decision after pressure, but NO dancing and the ceremony was attended by inspectors. Were they afraid that people would feel an affinity for yiddishkiet?
you are out to lunch, if you think the top brass really were fine with the whole ceremony.
wake up. If the shoe was on the other foot, and YOU GUYS were footing the bill, wouldn’t you feel the same?
bE HONEST!
fyi.. HERE IS ANOTHER PROFF.. SAME ARGUEMENT AND ARTICLE . WAS POSTED ON aRUTZ sHEVA TOO… NOT A YESHIVA HASHKAFA… ENOUGH SAID.
#7 Going out to work and joining a Torah-hating G-dless army is quite a difference. While only 20% religious Jews come out of this army religious, 99.99% remain religious in a work place.
#10;
Then go to work, then, or do some community service.
20% ??? Back it up with facts, please, not he said, she said proof.
Same for 99.99. We can argue for hours , the outworldly religious but in the heart atheists, the non-learning, non-army people going OTD, etc. even in Galut.
Even if the IDF were 100% G-D loving religious, you’d still be against it.
Just be honest, you & the others:
You just hate the medinah, hate its founding, are blind to the myriads of nissim every second, blind to the only nation on earth progressing. You hate it. You’ll find everything that’s wrong with it, and nothing that’s right with it, and been fed poison for generations. You don’t want this kind of army, that kind of army. You don’t want the medinah. Stop banfing around and say it squarely like a man.
Are you religious??? I mean, are you in the other 80% ?
#9,
I saw the Arutz 7 article. I have one question:
Who & why, hired an obviously professional announcer with a voice fit for radio commercials to narrate the video?
Obviously, a non-Jew,with the way he pronounces Torah as Tawwwruh.
I’m not saying Yogev’s all wrong ( still don’t have all the facts, though ), but what reaction do you expect when IDF is demonized, cursed, and even religious ones are thrown out of shuls, being embarrassed in public, with tacit approval of some rabbis. It takes 2 to tango.
Still wondering why some heimishe guy didn’t do the video if everything about the accusation is kosher. Trying to convince non-Jews to also hate the medinah?
It stinks, something’s rotten in Denmark.