Gavaad Eida Chareidis HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss Shlita is stepping up opposition to ongoing government efforts to draft bnei yeshivos. The Gavaad visited HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach Shlita in his Yerushalayim home and it appears that they are joining forces on this issue towards enlisting a large tzibur to take part in the event as well as enlisting support from chareidi areas worldwide.
Ladaat reports that the Gavaad is genuinely interested in a large turnout, realizing the gravity of the ongoing process aimed as closing yeshivos. As such, he hopes to include rabbonim and admorim outside the Eida kehilla, a move generally not scene in Meah Shearim.
The event is expected to take place in the near future and it will include prominent rabbonim, admorim, and of course rabbonim affiliated with the Eida.
The exact date, location and time have not yet been decided upon.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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We must have gratitude to the Rabbonim for doing all they can to keep our precious children out of danger. Today soldiers are at risk from Guerrilla attacks, RPG’s, Mines, Chemical weapons, Etc Etc.
Sure, share the burden. The chilonim etc should share the brden of Torah u’mitzos which is THE reason the m’dina is still around.
If the zionists go through with their plans to require most yeshiva students to give up learning for three years, with those who refuse be thrown in prison, and yeshivos that don’t cooperate being closed down — it will discredit the pro-zionist hareidim such as Agudah and Degel ha-Torah and proved that the anti-zionism of the Eidis Hareidis was right all along.
The zionists might back down and substitute plans relying on incentives to enlist rather than coercion, with no sanctions for refusers other than getting no economic benefits from the welfare state other than those given to Palestinian citizens of Israel. But none of the probable coalition partners, even Likud, is proposing such moderation.
The political ramifications will be hard to measure, but if Hareidim are relatively united, and become anti-zionist, it means that Israel will be approaching 40% anti-zionist, which would have serious political implications. The hareidi community was openly anti-zionist 90 years ago, but after the De Haan assasination focuses merely on survival – however the threat to close yeshivos and arrest the talmidim is unprecedented in the history of Eretz Yisrael and it it hard to predict where matters will lead.
The Eida realizes this will have little pertinence to them.
However instead of “B’Shrirus libi..”
they take responsibility for the klal…
The hareidi community was openly anti-zionist 90 years ago
not during the time of Rav Sonnefeld, Rav Kook, Rav Pesach Frank, Rav Herzog, Rav IZ Meltzer…..so what years are you refering to?..
ader (who is being sarcastic, I assume):
The Eidah favored peace with the Arabs. The zionists replied by murdering the frum community’s representative who was negotiating with the Arabs for a deal that would establish an Arab state with a autonomous Jewish community (and open immigration, which means Hitler would be blamed form the expulsion of European Jews).
I support those who choose to join the IDF. But I am also with those who will fight against being drafted against their will.
to # 1 ader –
Do you think that the Jewish soldiers (many of whom happen to be Shommrei Torah uMitzvos) who put their lives at risk to protect Acheinu KOL Beis Yisra’el are any less important than “our precious children”??? If you believe those who are learning should not be drafted because of the Shmira Torah provides to Klal Yisrael, we may agree or disagree, but you have something to argue. To imply, though, that “our precious children” shouldn’t serve because “it’s too dangerous” is the hight of arrogance.
As the gemara says, “Man Leima” – who says that your (or your “precious children’s”) blood is redder than that of my son, when he puts his life on the line to defend Klal Yisrael???? Aren’t they both decendents of Avrahm, Yitzchak, and Ya’akov? Didn’t they both stand at Har Sinai to say Na’ase V’Nishma?
HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!
an Israeli Yid
#3-how about if the “anti zionists” would have voted in the elections things wouldn’t be like this. R’ Shteineman has been quoted to say that anybody who does not vote is guilty of “Al Taamod al dam Reyecha”..it’s one thing to be anti zionist and another to not do anything to change things.
Sharing the Burden is so very important. I believe that it is imperative that the millions of non observant Jews should begin to share the burden of learning Torah so that those few who are misseros nefesh for klal Yisroel can go out to work.