A massive atzeres tefillah led by Sephardi Gedolei HaTorah, Chachamim and Rabbanim will be held on Thursday against the draft decree looming over the Olam HaTorah in Eretz Yisrael.
The atzeres, which will take place at 3 p.m. at the intersection of Rechov Yechezkel and Rechov Shmuel HaNavi in Jerusalem, will be headed by Zakein Roshei HaYeshivos HaGaon HaRav Moshe Tzadka, who will deliver the main address.
The atzeres is being held to daven against the decrees of Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara and the Supreme Court against the Olam HaTorah, especially the recruitment decree.
Sephardi Rabbanim are particularly worried about the Supreme Court’s ruling mandating the recruitment of bnei yeshivos as they are concerned the draft law will disproportionately affect Sephardi youth.
One of the advertisements for the atzeres, titled “לא תקום פעמיים צרה” reminded the Sephardi sector about the hundreds of thousands of Sephardi Jews who were cut off from Torah and mitvos after moving to Israel in the 1950s. “But then, with the great mesirus nefesh of Sephardi Gedolim and Chachamim, who established mosdos chinuch, shuls, yeshivos, and kollelim, the Sephardi Olam HaTorah slowly grew and flourished once again.”
“But now…the authorities want to cut the Eitz HaChayim down and throw the young generation into the melting pot of the army, which will not only stop the wonderful growth but will chalilah lead to the secularization of the next generation.”
“לא יקום ולא יהיה! It’s enough what happened in the past. It’s enough that tens of thousands of Sephardim are still far from the Derech HaTorah and you want to chalilah destroy the embers saved from the fire? No and no! Under no circumstance will we allow the same tzarah to occur again!”
Another advertisement for the atzeres features a letter from HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef, z’tl, and HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Kaduri, z’tl, stating that it is an issur chamur for any frum bochur, even if they are currently not enrolled in a yeshivah, to join the army.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
Where’s all the zionists screaming at the rabbis that they’re a bunch of fanatics and to cut out the nonsense. cmon already!
Howcome all rabbis besides Zionist rabbis are fanatics?
they’re not!
Being their head is in the Gemara and not in the street they therefore they have not become warped!
Now who are the fanatics
The amakek of the dor
Zionists all of them
Very sad, the people who learn torah and sacrifice the most living on nothing are the ones getting assaulted by those filthy Zionist pigs. But don’t worry a million plus arabs aren’t serving and getting free tuition and tax free everything. Where are the protesters? Silence from the left as usual. We should all be donating to kollels as much as possible, this is where hashem is looking to see who’s on his side and who is the side that puts down gedolim with their treachery
arabs not in army because of obvious reasons and security
why so much in Torah about farming laws?
a tiny tiny fraction should be exempt from army
not entire communities
pikuanefesh:
Idolatry and heresy are inviolable and supercede pikuach nefesh (as do the other two cardinal sins of shefichas damim and giluy arayos).
The Zionist army is a shmad factory of all of the above. Jews are forbidden from converting to any other religion including Zionism and must give up their life rather than commit any of the above.
I don’t get it, obviously staying in the Bais Medrash and learning is the best defense against this terrible gezairas shmad.
עיין משניות מסכת כלים פרק ב משנה ח “הלפיד טמא