The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America has issued the belwo statement designating tomorrow, Ta’anis Esther, as a Yom Tefila for the hostages, with special focus on bnei yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel. Similar statements have been issued by the Moatzos Gedolei HaTorah of Agudas Yisroel and of Degel HaTorah in Eretz Yisroel.
Agudas Yisroel also took the opportunity to request special tefilos on behalf of Shmuel ben Ita Etil, Rosh Yeshivas Philadelphia, Chaver Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, Horav Shmuel Kamenetsky shlita. The Rosh Hayeshiva’s condition has improved, but he still needs our tefilos.
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Is this legit? There are some glaring typos, and it is missing the usual font and letterhead. It wasnt either posted on the Aguda website!
The famous Gemara story when the pig was sent over the wall instead of the karbon and the money they have to the enemy for, and the person that said that when they do Torah you won’t have them, makes me angry when the gedolim say the army is only to shmad and that is it nothing to do with “protecting the Jewish people” and people start a kumzits , but what hurts more is the truth that Torah Jews help the medina hatameh survive a country that without God belief is worse then sedom, we should pray that our Torah and mitzvos won’t be a part of the evils that the country is rather then say we are crumb cake again, have to teach how to pray about this issue, the story in medrash eliyahu hanavi didn’t come cause something bad happened and if the heart of that tana was correct that then it would not happen, this is a lesson about how Gods world exist all the Torah and Gemara is about the existence of God as the world the existence of the world from true Torah can’t come bad that is the support of a country that like the navi says “till when are you on two threshold” that reshaim exist as help to the Torah world even to family and children, this country that sent millions of pure neshomos to the literal dark in minutes, is now on par with the nature, people that the only lust of life was torah and holiness and faith in God are now teased into this zionist community as everybody is there the end, and everybody is nothing in the end, no real zechus, the tears of moshiach
> Yom Tefila for the hostages, with special focus on bnei yeshiva
it is not the first time that these letters put together shevuyim and charedim – both bnei and distant relatives of Torah – refusing to go to the army. Is this to channel compassion in their direction or they feel it be too obviously cruel to only talk about yeshivos?
It got to the point that I am not sure I can fast tomorrow as it will be creating a moris ayn that I am joining in this.
It’s a gezaras shmad against torah in the holy land! This needs to be fought with all means at our disposal! Daven that גזירות קשות be בטל!
If Iran or Egypt would take over Israel, these boys would also have to serve in their army.
May the Zionist Entity be abolished soon with the coming of Moshiach b’mhero b’yomeinu Amein!
on October 7, there were only 600 soldiers manning the Gaza border and they were easily overrun by the several thousand terrorists. why? Because there’s not enough soldiers
It therefore stands to reason that every Bochur that refuses to serve has a small hand in the death of these soldiers. If Israel had 300,000 additional Bochurim soldiers, there likely would have been several thousand more soldiers manning the Gaza border, …. And a very different outcome.
Every bochur that refuses to serve continues to put each soldier that does serve in danger because of the fact that the soldiers are more spread out.
To amicable33
Why should yeshiva boys protect the nova festival where chillul shabbos and Yom tov eas taking place along with a Buddha statue Avodah Zara. This after the Israeli courts ruled you can’t have a mechitza on Yom Kippur davening. The army is far less religious than the american army that now band trans.
amicable33:
Actually, that because the wicked Zionists counted on their billion!! dollar wall and for lots of other reasons totally unrelated to frum Jews.
Your calculations are grossly mistaken. If not for all those Jews learning, the savages would have overrun the entire Zionist paradise. In other words, had those Jews been shmaded in the Zionist army, there would not have been anything left of the Zionist paradise.
@amicable: There was NO shortage of soldiers that SHOULD and COULD have been there, there was a shortage of HUMILITY amongst the IDF ELITE to recognise the danger from the OBVIOUSE signs.
2. WHY DID IT HAPPEN in first place? We just read in the Megillah Esther saying כנוס כל היהודים in response to Haman’s הנה עם מפוזר ומפורד both Haman and HAMAS understood the danger of DISUNITY (created by the leftists and ANTI-TORAH AND ANTI-GEDOLIM commentators above)!
3. IT WAS THE LEFTISTS AIR-FORCE PILOTS WHO REFUSED TO COME TO THE ASSISTANCE OF THE soldiers and civilians in danger!!!!!
PLEASE ALSO REMEMBER TO DAVEN FOR BRITISH JEWRY WHO ARE IN GREAT DANGER OF BEING EXPELLED FROM THE UK WITH THE NEW SCHOOL LAW.
Amicable- besides how disgusting you sound trying to shut down our Torah and corrupt our Pure learners in an Army full of immodesty and promiscuity, just remember that on October 7th there was no law requiring them to sign up for the Army and they were fully following the laws of the country with their exemptions which was given by the country itself in case you forgot. So besides all the mounting loads of evidence that there was neglection on every level of Army and intelligence departments, you blaming the learners for the lack of military response that day is really a bomb in the face of the truth. We all know what happened that day and it wasn’t because some people were learning. It was because all the important people that you hold so highly of were sleeping, and we’re not ready to send our precious boys to work for them