Rabbi Yaakov Medan, head of Har Etzion Yeshiva, responds to the comments by the dean of the Slabodka Yeshiva Rabbi Dov Lando, considered one of the leaders of the non-Hassidic (Litvish) haredi community, against Zionism and participation in the army.
"When a great Rabbi wants to acknowledge a miracle, why does he need to disparage the soldiers and say they only interposed between God and the world? Somewhere it has been established that there are two tracks that do not intersect. We must either thank God, as is mentioned repeatedly in the Bible or thank a man, if God is to be taken out of the picture."
"The ability to know how to be grateful to soldiers and at the same time to know how dependent we are on the deeds of the Almighty, and to live with this complexity, apparently is not a self-evident thing."
Rabbi Medan emphasized, "What they are doing by not going to the army is studying Torah and not observing it. It is like studying the laws of tzitzit and not wearing tzitzit, studying the laws of tefillin, and not putting on tefillin. This thing - helping Israel in the war - is the observance of Torah."
7 comments:
This "rabbi" in his blue shirt wouldn't know which way to hold a gemara. And he's telling us what the Torah says. Absolutely hilarious.
Yosef ha'rasha
כל המבזה תלמידי חכמים אין רפואה למכתו
Harav Hagoen Medan is a huge Talmid Chachim and the truth is that I don't have to advocate for him, his shiurim speaks for itself!
but that is beside the point
the point is that in the Litvishe World in order to be a Gadol, you either have to be in a wheelchair, or have a walker! In the Chassidishe World the Rebbe has to be an actor catching flies or imaginary angels by the tish. The rebbes have to be able to tell a story by Shalosh Seudois and at Melava Malka, knowing how to learn is not a requirement!
You judge a Gadol by the color of his shirt and I'll judge a Gadol by his intellect!
Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYX9JxQ4q0k
For eng captioning, go to ettings, subtitles, auto generate (hebrew), then auto translate to English
So it's the colour of the shirt that makes a rabbi now?
What criterion do you prefer? That he should say things that make sense and are supported by Rabbinnic sources?
Before you write something negative do your research.
Rav Landau shlita did not criticize the soldiers. He is trying to say that they are misled by the krumma leadership of the Bnei Akiva
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