Q&A: Will the yeshiva heads take responsibility for the horrifying failure in the Gaza border region?
Will the yeshiva heads take responsibility for the horrifying failure in the Gaza border region?
Question
The religious and Haredi parties explained again and again that the security of the State of Israel depends more on Torah scholars than on the army.
The yeshivas are funded on the assumption that they provide the state with security.
After the failure on the Sabbath, there have been many calls (justified ones) to investigate the army’s performance and remove failed commanders.
Why is there no call to investigate the performance of the yeshivas during the war?
Why are there no calls to remove yeshiva heads and leading rabbis of the generation who failed in defending the state?
Answer
Excellent question. 🙂 But of course it’s all because of the secular people / the army. The yeshivas are operating and have operated flawlessly. By the way, I also didn’t see an emergency call-up order to return to the yeshivas immediately after Simchat Torah.
Discussion on Answer
There were mixed celebrations on the Sabbath, so how do you expect Torah study to save anyone? In general, throughout the IDF there are women and men mixed together, and soldiers publicly desecrate the Sabbath. Check and you’ll hardly see any Haredi soldiers who died in battle—a plain proof that the Holy One, blessed be He, protects His children who keep His commandments.
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From here comes our salvation!!! The black Iron Dome has been activated, thank God. By the merit of the Torah study of each such yeshiva student there will be a great miracle for Israel! Every flak jacket from the War of Independence will be like a Windbreaker system, every modern flak jacket like an Iron Man suit!! This is Torah and this is its power!!!!!!! Tremendous more power to the holy children of Israel, whose Torah study shields pure Jewish souls from the bullets of the Hamas enemies of Israel.
I do not understand how far you have gone with this. Are there really none among you who see Torah study as a stronghold for the Jewish people as a whole? The midrashim of the Sages are full of this, and there are even explicit verses in the Hebrew Bible on the matter.
I would be glad to receive a substantive answer.
In the Six-Day War we had only 400 outstanding Torah scholars who were exempted from military service, and we achieved a brilliant victory while only 736 soldiers fell in battle.
In the Simchat Torah War we had tens of thousands of kollel men whom we exempted from the army, and we were struck in the campaign with the number of dead and missing double that of the Six-Day War (when we fought against Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq).
Maybe it would be better to work according to the model of Gideon son of Joash and his 300 water-lappers, and instead of supporting tens of thousands of kollel men who are not studying Torah in its truest sense, move to a model of 400 elite ones?
Since I saw Rachel from Ofakim’s interview, I haven’t had as good a laugh as I did when I saw the title of this question.
Your strength to Torah!
Yes, there was a total failure in mobilizing yeshiva students for prayers and Torah study. The Torah Iron Dome was not activated, because the secular establishment is addicted to materialism. It is unthinkable that such an important resource would not be deployed in the struggle for our survival! The yeshiva heads will be brought to justice by the commission of inquiry of the Chief Rabbinate.