After the big commotion two weeks ago about the "bar hopping" bochur, who was arrested for failing to to register for the draft, while hanging out in Eilat during bein hazmanim" and was at the same time, a big follower of the fanatical R' Shmuel Auerbach, who advocated not even registering for the draft, many people felt that the boy belonged in the army!
So, though, the motive of the Bnei Brak Rabbonim is that the boys stay in Yeshiva and not join the IDF, I think that this "no throwing anyone out of Yeshivah" is actually a great idea that the American Yeshivas should adopt as well.
Instead of throwing out boys that don't fit into the Yeshivishe mold..... who then start hanging out and getting into trouble, Yeshivas should have programs that would interest those boys, instituting programs like music, carpentry, electricity, plumbing etc..
We may be saving their lives ....
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It is about time to cater to the mediocre & average Bochur ...
The problem is that every Yeshiva wants Metzuyonim ...
In America the yeshivos throw out kids like used tissues. They don't care if they go and join the IDF!
Why only carpenters and plumbers. Why not also concentrate on professional jobs like programmers. Lawyers.doctors. stenographers. Architecture. Etc.
What are they learning, learning for its own sake? Are they a light to the nations?
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