Whoever blessed the soldiers who are currently fighting on Shabbat
Why don’t the ultra-Orthodox pray for those who bless IDF soldiers?
In the war?
Is this ‘Don’t add’?
Ask them.
Most Sephardim do say "He who blessed the soldiers." And there are also a few (more modern) Ashkenazi communities.
Those who don't, it's a byproduct of the wars they fought in the draft, from which they emerged with the feeling that the army was a minor enemy. Saying it out loud would have made the repressed stupidity clear, so they found pseudo-halachic excuses.
It's different from Hallel on Independence Day. The motivations are the same, but there's a real halachic case for not saying Hallel. He who blessed, in principle you can do it for your sick dog, although in this example I might agree that it's inappropriate.
Maybe they know deep down in Michi's teachings that the blessing doesn't really help. And so it's purely identification and that's already a specious thing.
By the way, I took from here an argument against "we protect the soldiers in our learning" (some have already told me that they added a page of Gemara for doubt, etc.)
Ah, you do learn three seders for the soldiers, but pushing someone who has blessed is too hard?
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