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Decision making

שו”תCategory: generalDecision making
asked 12 months ago

Hello Rabbi, I am facing a difficult dilemma.
I am a student in a Heder yeshiva who enlisted four months ago for a job that I really don’t connect with and have a very difficult time with.
On the one hand, I am very connected to Torah study and I try to study and observe as much as possible. And when I was in yeshiva, you could say that I would make the most of my time.
On the other hand, I want to play a significant role in the army, and my only option for a significant role is to sign a waiver of my yeshiva status and extend my service in the IDF to full service. Which will cause me some difficult religious difficulties, and I will miss out on returning to the yeshiva with my friends, and there is no telling whether in two and a half years I will want to return to the yeshiva (currently I am sure I will return, but there is no telling how I will feel after two years in the IDF in a completely secular society).
If I do not extend my service, it will be very difficult for me to properly utilize the year and a little that I have left in service to study Torah, because I am having a very hard time with the lack of activity in my current role, and this is affecting my desire.

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מיכי Staff answered 12 months ago

Apparently it depends on whether you feel you are superfluous there (disguised unemployment) or you just don’t like the role. If you are superfluous then I think you should move to a useful role, and try to maintain a spiritual level and the motivation to learn during your service. If it’s just a role you don’t like then I think it’s better to try to overcome it.

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