Thousands of yeshiva bochurim and avreichim from the Ateret Shlomo mosdos participated on Tuesday evening at the chasunah of the son of the Rosh Yeshivah, HaGaon HaRav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin, and the granddaughter of HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Soloveitchik, which was held at the D-CITY hall in Ma’ale Adumim, near Jerusalem.
The chasunah was attended by Gedolei Yisrael, Roshei Yeshivos, and Rabbanim from all stripes of Chareidi society, including HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shternbuch, HaGaon HaRav Berel Dov Povarsky, HaGaon HaRav Eliezer Yehudah Finkel, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef, HaGaon HaRav Avraham Salim, HaGaon HaRav Shimon Galay, and many others
At the end of the chasunah, the bochurim gathered on bleachers on both sides of the hall, and in a sight reminiscent of a Chassidish chasunah, HaRav Sorotskin stood in the middle and led the singing and dancing. “The first Litvish Rebbe,” Hebrew Mishpacha editor Aryeh Erlich jokingly wrote.
At one point, singer Ahrele Samet, who is a Toldos Aharon chassid, began singing the Toldos Aharon song: “ד’ הוּא מַלְכֵּנוּ וְלוֹ אֲנַחְנוּ עֲבָדִים, הַתּוֹרָה הִיא אֱמוּנָתֵנוּ וּבָהּ אֲנַחְנוּ מַאֲמִינִים. בְּשִׁלְטֹון הַכּוֹפְרִים אֵין אָנוּ מַאֲמִינִים, אֵין אָנוּ מַאֲמִינִים וּבְחֻקּוֹתֵיהֶם אֵין אָנוּ מִתְחַשְּׁבִים, אֵין אָנוּ מִתְחַשְּׁבִים. בְּדֶרֶךְ הַתּוֹרָה נֵלֵךְ בָּאֵשׁ וּבַמַּיִם”.
But he sang the song with a twist: “ובשלטון הכופרים אין אנו מאמינים” [we don’t believe in the heretical government], “ובלשכותיהם אין אנו מתייצבים” [we won’t be recruited to their offices] – a reference to the current efforts to recruit bnei yeshivos – ending with “בדרך התורה נלך באש ובמים.”
Videos of the song posted by Israeli media outlets on Wednesday morning led to a political uproar, with politicians such as Yair Lapid and Avigdor Lieberman slamming the calls for draft evasion and Lieberman repeating the message in the bill his party proposed to take away voting rights for those who don’t serve: “Don’t enlist, don’t vote.”
According to a Kikar H’Shabbat report, not all bochurim agreed with the song’s message, with one bochur saying: “There is no doubt that there were crazy energies in the air and there was a feeling of unity that hadn’t been around for a long time, but it also grated on us a lot because we are in a sensitive period in the country, and the truth must be told – we are not really Neturei Karta or Peleg, and it was too extreme for me.”
Another bochur said: “I felt like I was at Har Sinai. There was a spirit of hisrommemus and a feeling that the entire Chareidi public is united under the instruction of HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau not to report to the recruitment office. The feeling was that this is everyone’s concern, even those who are not necessarily obligated to enlist.”
HaRav Shalom Ber also sang “וכל מאמינים” and “עוצה עצה ותופר”, among other songs. The dancing and singing continued until the wee hours of the morning.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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24 Responses
Nice
Nothing like the hypocrisy of good old Yair Lapid, who due the protectsia of his politician father, had a cushy reporter job in the IDF paper ,despite not finishing high school.This was his service in the IDF but he always screams the loudest for Yeshiva students to stop learning and go fight in he IDF.
New religion!
I fail to see the logic in using your child’s wedding as a political rally and “sticking it to the chilonim” in a public forum. If you want to refuse going to army that is one thing. But since when do we dance up and down with joy publicly to spit in the face of those protecting you?
I recall the rally where Rav Shach created Degel HaTorah and described the rejection of Toarh from chilonim with tears in his eyes and had stop occasionally because of his sobbing. He was not jumping for joy.
It’s a mitzvah to make mockery of these shmadnik zionist thugs! As if voting has gotten us anywhere, let lieberman threaten all he wants! Voting hasn’t gotten the torah world more anything from them
Classic YWN clickbait. Nothing new here. This is sung by maaaaany people all over Eretz Yisrael. An uproar?! From Lapid and Lieberman YM”S?! c’mon… You’ll obviously find some disenchanted bachur wanting attention who will say “this didn’t feel right” or whatever
This article is pure clickbait. There’s nothing wrong with what they sang! Haha! You’re quoting the rasha Yair Lapid?? And a “report” from Kikar Shabbos that not all bochurim agreed to the song? Well guess what? That is what our gedolim believe, this is what all the gedolim are screaming about, that there’s a war on the Torah from the medina!
He is a future gadol hador and I heard him speak in English at a fundraiser and he was very good, very happy that he is sticking up to the Zionist shmad and their efforts to close yeshivas.
The song ends with לקדש שם שמים
Not sure where you got באש ובמים
rocky i guess for Purim you are already vehanapachu. WE are protecting the Zionists with our learning.
Can someone kindly please clarify….was this Reb Shalom Ber’s wedding or his son’s
Barn Owl:
Zionism is indeed a new religion, intended to replace Judaism.
The pig-eating heretic can’t deny them the right to vote just because they refuse to be forcibly converted from Judaism to Zionism in the Zionist shmad army. The Jews begged the Zionists not to invade and to leave once they did invade but the Zionists didn’t care. So, the Zionists can fight their self-caused forever wars and leave the Jews out of it.
@docelisheva – Lapid was not eligible for combat service as he had asthma. There are many, many things about him to criticize, but the fact that he did not serve in the IDF in a combat role is not one of them.
an Israeli Yid
“But since when do we dance up and down with joy publicly to spit in the face of those protecting you?”
B’avod reshaim rina
Rocky, because maybe they are protecting the country
and maybe if you opened a gemara ud come across that Gemara too
its actually in megillah 10a
olam hafuch ra’eeysa
this is song at every other yeshiva gathering across eretz yisrael
earth to ywn
Bahrav-Miara will hug a Hamas terrorist before she would feed a Yeshiva boy. It’s no secret the agenda of that woman and her disgusting backers. The fact that the government is dying to fire her should say enough already, she’s a traitor to the state she works for. Anyone who is behind what she’s doing should be wiped out with her
More importantly, what age is the chosson and what age is the kalla? We don’t want to upset the kleineh kep that are promulgating the age-gap hoax.
Sorotzkin has a very difficult job , flying the world chasing and begging for money without the nachas , olam hazeh of having talmidim and giving shiur , so this was a way of thanking him for his efforts
Ok let’s say you are a Lakewood mom with 5 kids. Your husband went on a business trip for a few days and you’re alone managing the household all by yourself during that time. Food bedtime bath etc. not easy, right?
Now imagine your husband is gone not for business but for Miluim for 300+ days in the past 1.5 years. And you see these shmendriks jumping up and down to “we will not help the war effort one bit!”
How would you feel? Awe and admiration or something else?
melech1, use of YM’S in reference to a Jew requires that you find those two individuals and seriously ask for mechilah, lest the consequences befall you.
To nochAnudnik
My response to you.
You say 300 days away fighting the war past year and a half. Who said the husband has to go to war. They could have just not allowed any food,water,fuel,electricity,internet,medicine and media outlets into Gaza and not one Israeli soldier would die. Plus you could have blown away all buildings in Gaza through plane fire instead of fighting room to room because the leftist elite don’t want to kill Gaza civilians but don’t care much about Israeli soldiers.
Those who don’t believe that the Torah protects and that learning protects is denying the holy Gemara and I don’t know how you could call yourself religious at that point if you don’t think studying what you already believe to be God’s book is important!! You’re not seeing the bigger picture, they are not dancing humorously to spit at soldiers that sacrifice their lives, they are dancing numerously to mock the disgusting liberal zionists that want to shut down their religion. Ask them how many Arabs serve? The answer is zero even though they are full citizens with voting rights. But they get all the benefits of citizenship including College scholarships and child care vouchers but I don’t see any of you getting worked up about that because you’re fake and you’re just as bad as the Attorney General herself, a complete hypocrite and heretic if you talk that way about learners