7 Responses

1. “Apart from the flag there is no indication of Yom Ha’atzmaut at the yeshivah“

   What about the faces of the bouchrim after receiving draft orders that will force them out of yeshivah and most likely out of yiddeshkeit? What about the yungerleit who can no longer learn with menuchas henefsh because the Medinah of reshaim won’t let his child attend playgroup? Those are some pretty good indications I would think.

2. חילל השם נורא וכפירה פומבית בה’ ובתורתו

3. יום-העצמאות שמח to eveyone

4. Ariroze- it’s not just yeshiva bochurim. It’s also the faces of miluimnicks who have to leave their families again and watch their parnassah and families suffer beyond their control. It’s also the Hesder boys who have to leave the Beis Medrash again and return to the gehenom of the front lines. It’s also the soldiers who have to return to the place where they saw their fellow soldiers maimed and injured

   Charedim aren’t the only ones faced with the fear of war and serving in the armed forces. But that’s what happens when we have genocidal enemies attacking us. We need to make sacrifices for the sake of the Klal, to stand together and not allow them to attack us anymore.

   May HaShem protect our soldiers.

5. So bachurim from the most respected Yeshiva in the world will be lost to Yiddishkeit if they served in the army?
   Maybe they should spend some time getting some chizuk in a Hesder Yeshiva!

6. Ponevezh rav was optimistic about the Zionist path: (from Chanoch Teller) he once was walking past a construction site for a Histadrut (labor) building. He commented that they are using incorrect steel for the foundation. Workers were amazed that (1) Rav knows construction, and (2) that he cares about the Histadrut.

   On (1), Rav was involved in construction for his yeshiva. On (2), he said – I am confident that this building will eventually host a yeshiva, so I want the building to be built right.

7. @marc is it better than the czars army?
   I wish all of Klal yisrael well, but it’s not a secret that the IDF is a one way ticket to SHMAD. No one denies that. And this is a different point than the fact that we’re taking people away front heir gemaras. The most precious thing Klal yisrael has. The leftists who are trying to shut down the yeshivas can add their name to the list of hundreds if not thousands of people who tried stopping the learning of Torah hakedosha. From the yivanim Spanish Inquisition and everyone else. These draft orders have absolutely NOTHING to do with a need for more boots on the ground, it has to do with the hate of Torah ve’lomdeah.