Amid the unprecedented battle against Lomdei Torah and religion in general by Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara and the Supreme Court, HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau made statements with chilling implications.
During a meeting with the head of the Lev Shomeah organization [which provides therapeutic support to struggling Chareidi youth and recently established a branch for Anglos,] HaRav Landau said: “The only reason the Arabs around us don’t flood the land and kill us all, rachmanah litzlan, is because of Lomdei Torah.”
In a video of the meeting, the Rosh Yeshivah can be seen saying: “You – the Lomdei Torah are the ones who save [Eretz Yisrael]. There’s no explanation for why the Arabs don’t unite and flood the entire land and rachmana latzlan, kill everyone. There’s no explanation!”
“The Zionists acted as if they saved the Jewish nation but they’re the ones that caused the tragedies [the enemies’ attacks] – not only the ruchniyus tragedy of Am Yisrael.”
The Rosh Yeshivah continued: “We’re in a very difficult situation – all the Chareidim. We hope to Hashem that it will be good. We hope and we daven.”
The Rosh Yeshivah has made similar statements a number of times in the past.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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So how come we survived when they tried to kill us for the first decades of the state, when there were only a few hundred yeshiva students? Apparently you don’t need an endlessly growing number of tens of thousands of people in yeshiva and kollel in order to survive.
Maybe its because of the other taryag mitzvot as well? When a person takes upon themselves a mitzva, it has an effect? And thousand of yidden have taken upon themselves a mitzva l’zechit eretz yisroel
I’m sure people who identify themselves as Jewish with have thier negative opinions on this, but if you call yourself a Jew look at the famous Ramban at the end of Parshat Bo.
“A person does not have a portion in the Torah of Moshe Rabenu until he believes everything that happens is miracles, not nature or the way of the world”
Not a portion he says not a portion, so you can’t log on and say you have part of it.You’re totally disconnected