The IDF Rabbi of the Nachal Chareidi regiment, Rabbi Shaul Avdiel, informed the Charedi soldiers in the past days, the eve of Shloshim of Seret-Vishnitz Rebbe, Rabbi Eliezer Hager ZT”L, which will be on Wednesday, 20 Menachem Av, the regiment will hold a “an all Torah day” as an aliyah for the rebbe’s neshama. The theme of the day will be around “Torah, holiness and war”.

The day of limud will be a part of a spiritual preparation of the chareidi combatants before summer training is to take place a month from now in the Tzeilim Base. During the training, the soldiers will exercise urban and outdoor warfare. The limud day is part of a new procedure led by regiment commander, Lt.-Col. Ori Levi, in which every month a Torah study day is exercised in the regiment; at the heart of the day a “Shiur K’loli” is conducted. It is passed by the Regiment Rabbi, one of the four rabbis of the Nachal Chareidi Foundation or a guest speaker, side by side with the regular Torah classes which take place at the regiment on a daily basis.

A source in the Nachal Chareidi Foundation says that “the rebbe ZT”L was one of Haifa’s liberators on the one hand, and the spiritual leader of a holy chassidic congregation in the same city on the other hand. The role Holy Rebbe of Seret-Vishnitz played inspires our soldiers as he combined in his unique character both a combatant and a mitzvah and Torah abiding Jew, without one overriding the other”.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)