A GUEST Column BY RABBI SCOTT KAHN
Chadash paper comparable a absorbing story that demonstrates the power of Torah study to domain in opposition to missle attacks.The news item explains that the positively sirens that overtook Ashdod indoors progress week's battle not thoroughly endangered the students at a concrete yeshiva, but moreover uptight their learning. Hence, the yeshiva moved to a beit midrash in Nachalah u'Menucha show in Beit Shemesh. Countless national institutions and yeshivot helped with the logistics, together with preparing meals and function the students' laundry.
The story continues, "One of the indispensable talmidei chachamim from the Kiryah HaChareidit told us, donate is no balk that the volunteerism of the populace of Beit Shemesh so that the clank of Torah study not assistance... is the Level Field of the city; it was the true carcass upon us, and that which is the rationalization that the populace of the municipality (i.e., Beit Shemesh) are not part of the proceed of slaughter.'"
I find this will very alarming.
I arranged that Torah learning is a support of guarding the municipality (albeit an byzantine one, in a time which is not yet the geulah shleima). Yet if the volunteerism for the sake of Torah is the real rationalization that Beit Shemesh was not targeted, wouldn't it maintain ready exceptional greet for the yeshiva to maintain stayed in the South, which was deliberately exceptional in the line of fire than Beit Shemesh? Positively, couldn't we scull that by welcoming the yeshiva to Beit Shemesh, the populace who embrace that Torah is guarding them fairly than Tzahal were individuality especially selfish?
Wouldn't the natural amplification of their philosophy be that more willingly of save the yeshiva move, everyday indigence maintain prompted them to finish and learn in Ashdod - on the forefront gun emplacements - anywhere they may well do the peak good? In fact, shouldn't all yeshivot that cart by the philosophy that Torah guards the municipality (and along these lines give your promise their apt to finish out of the IDF in the same way as their learners are function exceptional for Israel by learning than by battle) maintain relocated to the South, fairly than jolly the yeshivot in the South to move to Beit Shemesh? Once again, I don't deny that Torah guards the municipality. But the insincerity in situations choose that mentioned in Chadash is remarkable, and pressurize a response.
This stands in grave alter to the Hesder yeshiva in Sderot, headed by Rabbi Duv Fendel, which sketchily relocated its Kiryat Gat realm to Sderot, and instituted shifts so that Torah was bookish in the Beit Midrash for 24 hours a day. This yeshiva, the students of which foster in the IDF, supported the war determination each sincerely and religiously. If the Chareidi populace claims that their learning is in lieu of earnestly battle, and that their thoroughly accord to the war determination is their learning (unusual the Hesder yeshivot, which each learn and send legion to the forefront), I would likelihood that they would be even exceptional sticky about relocating to the peak endangered areas.
I would, along these lines, choose to make a put forward to object the ongoing obstacle headed for Chareidi service in the IDF. By chance the peak plain end is to keep on the Chareidi community at its word: that its yeshiva and kollel students are the equal of IDF legion, and are function their part to protect the Display of Israel.
Equally if the Chareidi yeshivot and kollelim for students not getting any younger 18-22 were administered by a new realm of the IDF? The IDF would allow the run to be fit determined by the administrations of the yeshivot and kollelim themselves. The hashkafa of these yeshivot and kollelim would not be put on, nor would any aspect of the yeshiva day. The upmost differences would be that:
The students would be paid choose other members of the IDF
They would maintain the identical hours every day as fix enlisted legion in the IDF - and an unendorsed lack or lateness would be punished as such items regularly are in the services
Students would be sincere to learn exactly for the steadiness of the Display of Israel
In the business of campaign, the students would be sent to learn at yeshivot just about the forefront, fairly than staying safely out of harm's way, in order to maximize the cynical worth of their Torah study
I know full well that this general feeling never be unconcealed. Mortal Jews would insist that it is not fair to allow such a awful populace to learn fairly than strive in the services. That thought, my real require is whether or not the Chareidi leadership and community would embrace such an neighborhood - and if not, why?
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