Bnei-Brak Liars!

 

The article below appeared in a Hebrew Magazine called "Matzav Haruach" which I translated loosely into English! 

I have written before that Chareidim do not really believe that Torah is מגנא ומצלא (protects), not they nor their spiritual leaders! 

They actually laugh and mock that idea as we saw during Bein Hazmanim when they slammed their Gemarrahs shut to spend time with their families while their frum brothers in uniform were dying by the hour! If they really believed it they would have cut the Bein Hazmanim altogether. Some serious Yeshivos actually either cut it short or extended the zman by two days (Mir) which in itself mocks the entire premise. The R"Y of the Institutions that did "extend the learning for a couple of days" admitted that it had nothing to do with the belief that "Torah Protects" it was only for show to fool the masses!

This is really one of many different articles that appeared in hundreds of different Dati-Leumi weekly magazines this week, who are getting angrier and angrier and fed up at Chareidim for not enlisting, but since I believe this one captured all what even Heimishe Yidden are feeling I decided to post it!

by Menachem Rahat

 

שערי תירוצים לא ננעלו

 This week, in an official ceremony, the Bnei Brak Municipality inaugurated the innovative and upgraded security system to protect all the city's educational institutions from terrorists

What can we say and how will we talk? מה נאמר ומה נדבר

According to the municipality:

 "Bnei Brak now has an innovative and advanced security system! Dedicated security teams that will move around the streets of the city of "Torah and Chasidus" with armed patrols mounted on the streets of the city, as part of a professional system that, as the municipality testifies, provides effective security to all educational institutions and neighborhoods in real time."

How beautiful! And extremely important in these difficult times.

But, I asked myself, 

Why did the municipality waste millions on an innovative and advanced security system? 

After all, there is no dispute that Torah is מגנא ומצלא (protects)! No?

. So why would you  waste millions protecting the Tinokas shel Beis Rabban, when the Torah itself is מגנא ומצלא? Why waste public funds? Mr. Mayor Hanoch Seibert, where is your frumkeit?

This is further proof that even the municipality of the City of Torah & Chasidus thinks that Torah alone can not possibly be מגנא ומצלא (protect), and that "an additional layer  of professional security teams and policing teams, "is needed!

It turns out that this false, world-wide claim that the Bnei Brak rabbis, brandish," that there is no need to enlist them in the IDF because their Torah מגנא ומצלא (protects)," is also how the  municipality holds, and they both actually hold from the narrow interpretation of the Vilna Gaon, that the dictum of that Torah מגנא ומצלא (protects) only from sin and only personal basis, and does not alone defend against the Palestinian murderers.

The original position of Judaism is that the מעשה עיקר, and  וגדול תלמוד שמביא לידי מעשה and that learning Torah without doing anything is worthless. Hence,מגנא ומצלא (protects) argument is like a bird's twitting. 

Already in the Exodus from Egypt, G-d made it clear to us that one needs to take action 

 !מה תצעק אלי ?דבר אל בני ישראל ויסעו

It turns out that the ultra-Orthodox themselves do not believe in the claim of מגנא ומצלא (protects)

 When the Bnei Brak Municipality needs security, it does not ask that people should  increase Torah learning, but rather establishes an "innovative and advanced security system." 

When the son of an ultra-Orthodox mother has a fever, she runs to the doctor and does not sit at home relaxed under the pretext of מגנא ומצלא (protects) And when a Charedi wants to cross the busy Jabotinsky Street, he will not jump onto the road without a traffic light, just because the Torah is מגנא ומצלא (protects)

The false מגנא ומצלא (protects) claim is one of the many false excuses raised by the ultra-Orthodox to justify their trampling on explicit Biblical commandments and the reprimands of Moshe Rabbeinu and Deborah the prophetess

לא תעמוד על דם רעך  "Thou shalt not stand on the blood of thy neighbor" 

 They claim that the  Torah itself cannot not be replaced, but they allow themselves to ignore it with false claims. Sometimes with the claims of מגנא ומצלא (protects) and then sometimes with a new nonsense claim that "The IDF is a large and bloated army and doesn't really need the ultra-Orthodox."

But after it became clear that over the past year, some 900 soldiers and another 10,000 wounded had been wiped out of the IDF's arsenal, a new excuse for evasion emerged: 

"Charedi recruits would not be able to maintain their way of life. "

But then came the establishment of the new Haredi Brigade, which is based on the principles of  Charedi conduct (without women, without profanity, with the fanciest kashrut, with dedication of time to prayers and Torah study, etc.), and this proved that this too is a false claim.

Now we have to find a new excuse, and MK Eichler must dig to find  a new way to legalize the evading of the draft.

 The sophisticated ultra-Orthodox excuse industry, which works non-stop in the gates of excuses  שערי תירוצים לא ננעלו , is actually designed to cover up the huge elephant in the center of the room, which is the grounds for how to avoid serving the country!

And the elephant that no one sees or hears but is at the center of the ultra-Orthodox ideology is their crooked theology that the State of Israel is not a legitimate state. 

This is an ideology deeply ingrained in the blood and soul of all ultra-Orthodox sects – from those who pose as "lovers of Israel" through bizarre gimmicks that conceal a hostile ideology, to Satmar and the Jerusalem fanatics that externalize their hostility to the point of spraying PLO flags on the walls of houses in Mea Shearim.

(As an aside, it should be noted that there is nevertheless a difference between them: the Satmars and the Jerusalem zealots do not reach into the coffers of the Medina, nor do they vote for the Knesset and do not interfere in its affairs; while the others not only reach for the Goldknopfit "bowl," but also send the Mizruchiks to be killed at the front, while their own sons are sent to be "killed" in the tent of Torah, and receive subsidies and financial support from the Medina.)

The perception of the anti-state, hostile to the point of contempt, was shaped by the greatest teacher of ultra-Orthodox after the Holocaust, the Chazon Ish. 

Already in 1948-1949 he rejected the Jewish state, the great miracle that is second to none, the האתחלתא, and claimed that the state is headed by "a group of usurpers who call themselves a state and a government" (exact quote!), and therefore – the Yetad Neeman  only this week wrote "everything must be done to take from their hands everything possible."

The Chazon Ish predicted that the State would survive only one year! "S'vat nisht unhalten a yur [it will not take last a year]," he ruled. "After all, a predator animal doesn't live more than a year." 

The State of Israel is already in the midst of its eighth decade, but the wrong prediction of the Chazon Ish  remains ingrained as it was in 1948.

Now everything is understandable.

 The ultra-Orthodox will never come to the rescue for a" state that does not really exist."

But what do they do with the facts? That the state is still alive and kicking before their very own eyes? 

To that, they absurdly claim that "these are just false and repulsive visions and why risk dying for her?"

And if this is how they think then it is no wonder that they despise to the depths of their souls the Torah observant public, who have been giving their lives for a year to save the beginning of the growth of our redemption, fall in battle disproportionately to their share of the population, but only receive condescending epithets of contempt! 

Calling them Mazruchniks (not to mention Mesruhniks),Dati-Leuminiks and that their Yeshivos  never be called "yeshivas" by them, but rather 'institutions of order'. 

By virtue of this idea, they will never say a prayer for the peace of the state, or even a prayer for the welfare of IDF soldiers; And on Independence Day, they will say Tachnun as if it were Tisha B'Av, as was the custom of the Chazon Aish and Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky.

 The days that one has to serve in the reserves – 250-300 in the past year – of the Mizrochiks; whose businesses are collapsing, or the the Dati-Leumis  who throw their lives aside; their wives who are collapsing under the burden of livelihood, laundry and children; The worries of mothers who don't sleep at night and are frightened every time there is a knock on the door, do not worry them at all. 

They, after all, sleep well, and wake up leisurely to Goldknopf's "bowl," who brazenly wonders: "Who is bad here, anyway?"

To Goldknopf and his fellow dodgers, what's really wrong here?