Hello Rabbi, regarding the unrestrained rampage,

Could you please give examples? I haven’t noticed anything unusual compared to any other government. (We know that if Deri had gone with Gantz he would have gotten exactly the same things.)

First of all, there’s a logical problem in what you’re saying. Even if you were right that Deri would have gotten the same things from Gantz, it would still be a rampage. Appointing corrupt people is a rampage. Recklessly transferring budgets without advancing core studies is a rampage. Canceling the draft in violation of the law is a rampage. Attacking all the officeholders is a rampage. Ignoring their warnings is a rampage. Abolishing the Bar Association after trying and failing to get a corrupt person elected is a rampage. Changing the status of the rabbinical courts is a rampage. Appointing neighborhood rabbis as jobs for cronies is a rampage. Appointing cronies is a rampage. Manipulating the law for the sake of interests is a rampage. Severely harming security, the economy, and society is a rampage. Endless lies the likes of which no other group can match are a rampage. And there’s much more of the same.

Rabbi, don’t you believe that Haredi Torah study (among other things) protects the state? Don’t you accept the concept of “a thousand to the tribe, a thousand to the tribe” (for every thousand fighters, place a thousand learners)?

Meanwhile, the ones rampaging are the various officeholders (who are not political at all…..) and their “warnings” (very objective warnings….). We elected this government precisely so it would fight the bureaucrats and knock them down onto all fours. So they should know that the people run the country, not them. Appointing cronies is also exactly because of this. Appointing people our elected officials can trust, and not people who fight them and want to carry out their own policy.

By the way, for now, based on what I can see, the one rampaging most here is you… and also the crazed, wild, mindless left.

And how can you even talk about “endless lies the likes of which no one can match”? Not only do they have a match; they have fathers and grandfathers. The left in academia and the media (and the members of Knesset who follow them) are the fathers of the ideology of lying. They are such successful liars that they already believe their own lies. They are capable of contradicting themselves in the middle of a sentence without noticing, and they will believe both sides of the contradiction with a whole heart (?). For them there is no reality at all. Whatever doesn’t fit their theory they simply don’t perceive with their senses. Even if you were right about the government’s lies, that’s the only way to deal with them, though I doubt it’s possible to beat them at their own art. The only way that will work is simply to ignore them.

So I didn’t really understand why the Rabbi is calling for an escalation of the protest. If right now the protest is working, according to your view.

I didn’t call for escalation. I called for continuing and not being deterred from steps that are on the border of legality.

Rabbi, don’t you believe that Haredi Torah study (among other things) protects the state? Don’t you accept the concept of “a thousand to the tribe, a thousand to the tribe” (for every thousand fighters, place a thousand learners)?

I answered, but for some reason my reply didn’t appear.
I don’t believe that. But I am definitely in favor of an exemption for a defined and small number of serious learners. Not because it protects, but because Torah study is important, and it’s important that we have Torah scholars. See my columns on a new social covenant.
In any case, this has nothing to do with the Haredim and their demands, because they are not concerned with protecting the state but with preserving Haredi society. Therefore, from their perspective, none of them should have to enlist, regardless of whether he studies or not.
And in general, learners, whether they protect or do not protect, can also do that after the army. Learners do not have to be learning specifically at age 18. Let a thousand learners age 21 and up protect us.

If I enlist in what is called “central hesder,” which is between 9 months and a year and a half of service, and the rest of the time I’m in yeshiva—is that morally okay?

I think so. It is service that trains you as a fighter, and that is the main thing.

Is it also okay if someone in that central hesder goes into a non-combat desk job?

I didn’t understand the question. If your profile doesn’t allow combat service, then there’s no other option. If it does allow it, it is proper to go into combat service. In any case, the IDF also needs soldiers who provide service to the fighters. The last time I checked, the ratio in the IDF between the number of fighters and the number of soldiers in rear echelons was among the best in the world.

I know myself, and I think my contribution in the rabbinate would be better (even though I am capable of being in combat). Isn’t it moral to serve in the rabbinate in such a case?

In my opinion, the chance that you would make a significant contribution as a military rabbi is small. A soldier has human, moral, and spiritual influence on his surroundings that is no less significant. But it would be worth asking people who are more familiar with the current situation in the army, because I’m not up to date on it now.