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| An elderly IDF soldier seen patrolling southern Syria wearing Tefillin. |
CBN is a WhatsApp News Site representing the Yeshivish world, primarily in Lakewood!
It really gives the news short and concise and almost as soon as its happening!
On Friday they posted a comment (see below) from a follower that is fed up with the Chareidie hashkafa that it shouldn't serve in the IDF!
The guy actually makes a lot of sense, and CBN probably, without giving it too much thought, posted it!
It didn't take 5 minutes that CBN had to say that it is not their opinion and that they follow "Daas Torah" whatever that means! They must have gotten, as they admitted, tremendous backlash!
The truth is that most thinking and sane Charediem think exactly like that guy (below) and I would venture to say that CBN also agrees but had to back off because of $$$$$$$!
I understand that completely!
Below the sane guy's comments, I am posting CBN's panicked response after getting hell from his brainwashed Fakewood followers!!
Having said that, I know that most Charedim cannot understand why Charedim are not there to defend their families after all, its our country, our soldiers and there is a "lav" in the Torah of לא תעמוד על דם רעך !
In addition, Moshe Rabbeinu said
?האחיכם יבוא למלחמה ואתם תשבו פה
I see this as a failure of yiddishkeit that we have parents and Zaydies who need to fight because there are those who think they are Pattur from a milchamah because of Talmud Torah. Somewhere along the line, daas torah took a wrong turn.
If the charedi leadership truly cared about this chiyuv to serve, they wouldn’t just say
“the army service pulls people off the derech,”
they would make it work. The idf is desperate enough for soldiers that if the charedi leadership came to them in good faith and said “here are our conditions for us to send you 60,000 soldiers,” the idf would bend over backwards to make it happen.
CBN Response:
*Mr. K here.*
A couple of points I need to clarify.
Wow. Walked right into a minefield 🤯
*I want to start by apologizing, not for posting an opinion, but rather, if the posts I sent offended anyone with deep emotions on the matter.*
*CBN is not a closed forum. We allow people’s opinions to be heard and said. There are tens of thousands of people on CBN with different opinions on this explosive topic. In hindsight, I probably should not have posted an opinion like this on a Friday morning…*
When it comes to Daas Torah, a subject I probably should have stayed away from due to limited understanding, I’ll just say this: The Chazon Ish ZT”L devoted years trying to resolve the matter and unfortunately couldn’t. We’re certainly not going to be the ones to settle it now.
*There are thousands of Rabbanim, each with their own shitos, and CBN’s position is simple: everyone has the right to follow their own Daas Torah.*
That said, my personal opinion is that this is far beyond my level, and it’s a matter that should be left to the Gedolei Yisroel of the generation. My hope is that Hashem helps us reach a true resolution to this major issue once and for all.
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