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In what may have been a historic event, rabbonim affiliated with the chareidi and dati leumi communities met on Wednesday night the eve of 4 Nissan 5773. The meeting was held in the home of HaGaon HaRav Simcha HaKohen Kook Shlita in the Old City of Yerushalayim.
The participants may have different hashkafos, but share concerns regarding the future of the Torah world, the yeshivos located throughout Eretz Yisrael.
The call issued by the rabbonim is “No one has the right to harm Torah education in any way, and these actions must be terminated by Gedolei Yisrael.”
The rabbonim agreed to meet from time-to-time towards enhancing achdus.
Participating in the event were:
הרב זלמן מלמד – רב הישוב וראש הישיבה בבת -אל
הרב חיים גנץ – ראש הישיבה הגבוהה בתל אביב
הרב מיכה הלוי – רב העיר פתח תקוה וראש ישיבת נחלת יצחק
הרב שמואל אליהו- רב העיר צפת
הרב יצחק בן שחר- ראש ישיבת קדומים
הרב יעקב שפירא- ראש ישיבת מרכז הרב
הרב יהושע מגנס – ר”מ בישיבת מרכז הרב
הרב שמחה הכהן קוק- רבה של רחובות ורב ביהכנ”ס החורבה
הרב יגאל רוזן -ראש ישיבת אור ישראל
הרב ברוך ויסבקר – ר”י בית מתיתיהו
הרב דוד כהן- ר”י חברון
הרב צבי פרצוביץ – ר”י מיר ברכפלד
הרב אברהם דירנפלד – ראש כוללי עיון בבלזא
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11 Responses
Nice gathering.
From the names listed, heavy on the Dati Leumi and weak on the so-called Charedim with one Chassidic participant.
a deal has been reached. Chareidim are out. Get ready. Still think the Satmir Rebbe was wrong?
All Torah is now on the chopping block and not just the Torah of the chareidim.
I think that the Chareidi public needs to be more proactive and if they were that would probably have prevented this whole saga.
I’ll send my dog catcher, you send your Prime Minister.
After all,my dog catcher is way above your Prime Minister, but I’m in a generous mood today.
You don’t negotiate by saying NO to everything and refusing to discuss anything. The chareidim made their own mess and now they will feel the pain.
A the names are counted, there seems to be 10 Dati leumi, two litvishe roshei yeshiva and one chassidic rav. Not exactly a conclave of unity. The chareidi rabbinic establishment still dismisses the dati leumi crowd-to their etrnal loss !
#2 Definetely WRONG,,,and time will prove it too.
This is how tou stop Reshoim–with Achdus among Maameenim!
“Lech Kenos es Kol Hayehudim!”
#7- If the Dati Leumi are upset about this, that is earth shattering. If the Dati Leumi join with the Litvish, Hasidic, Sefardic, and the anti-zionists (Edah hareidis) – that is revolutionary.
#8- if the agreement is implemented as Lapid says it will be, then #2 is right — however both Likud and Bayit Yehudi will pay a severe political price and may act to prevent full implementation. If the maximum penalty is loss of government funding, also seen as limiting yeshiva subsidies to veterans – nothing horrible will happen. If they have financial penalties enforced by threat of arrest, loss of civil rights, fines to be paid out of foreign donations, etc. – it’s the same as if people are being throw in prisons.
However such a meeting a sign that the situation is grave.
I have given up long ago to comment on apukerma’s bizarre and idisyoncratic comments but his latest are truly lunacy. How does hw “know’ that they wil lpay a heavy political price/ how does “know” what will happen?