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Does ‘lone soldier’ mean an Orphan Soldier? Then I can understand that we should help them anyway we can
However if it just means that he has no family in Israel, why help him, very likely he has a rich Daddy in the States that should be helping him, even if Daddy is presently on a fancy cruise, and not near an ATM machine.
Any thoughts?Thoughts are that he shouldn’t have volunteered in the first place.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news to you (& every Antisemite) but not all Jews are rich. Some come from poor single parent homes. Some come from middle class homes where money is tight. There’s a million reasons why they may need help.
Here is a Jew who didn’t have to but volunteered to help protect the Yidden (including the ones learning) in Eretz Yisroel & your complaint is about what?Mental and emotional support. Financial if he needs it. ujm is כופר טוב.
Evion is a poor person who has no money. Ani is a person who used to have something and is now lacking that. He needs our support if necessary even if he is not poor in financial sense. A person who volunteer to risk his life – kal vechomer. According to R Wachtfogel Z’L, Lakewood Mashgiach, Esther becomes Mordechai’s rebbe at the moment she is risking her life (by deciding to go to the King). I did not use this chance to ask the Rav about giyus.
Once full-scale war broke out after the State of Israel
declared its existence on May 14, 1948 [CE]
Reb Shraga Feivel’s [Mendlowitz] thoughts
were never far from Eretz Yisrael.A group of students saw him outside the Mesivta building
one day, talking excitedly with Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr
and gesticulating rapidly with the newspaper held in his hand.“If I were your age,” he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz]
told the students, “I would take a gun and go to Eretz Yisrael.”SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of Torah in America
(chapter 26, page 338) by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah,
year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was the founder of Torah U’Mesorah
and became principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in year 1921 CE.
His career in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas lasted 25 years.
He was known as “the premier architect of Torah in American history.”
He left this world in 1948 CE at the age of 62 years.A Lone Soldier is a soldier who does not have local support from family. The presumption in the Israeli army is that soldiers have family at home who can support them with erends, housing, and meals when they’re on leave – and those who lack that are given certain benefits to account for that. These benefits include extra time off (to run errands) and extra pay (since they need to pay for housing and food when not on base).
Lone soldiers are not only those who come from Chutz l’Aretz – the category includes those who, for whatever reason, are not supported by family. This can be due to a dysfunctional family at home,. not all that uncommonly, someone from a Chareidi family who has been cut off to one extent or another for having joined the army. Someone from Chu’l also needs the extra time, and has costs that parents may have difficulty paying – so they’re absolutely entitled to the benefits of being a Chayal Boded.
an Israeli Yid
The “Lone soldier” program covers any Israeli soldier with no close family in the country. It is set up and run by the Israeli military. Assistance includes extra pay and arrangements of a place to go home while on leave. In other countries, it is very unusual for a soldier to have no family in the country (an interesting exception is France whose Légion étrangère includes many non-citizens with no family in the country, and for whom special arrangements are made).
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