People wonder why a Gadol would need written notes for such a simple message, and the reason is straightforward: most people don’t understand what’s actually happening.
Why would a Rosh Yeshiva, someone who knows Kol HaTorah Kula, require notes to deliver a message that even a young child could articulate? The answer is simple—he is relying entirely on the information provided to him by those around him. As far as I know, Rav Landau doesn’t follow the news and isn’t on social media. Everything he hears comes through his handlers, the askanim who filter and frame the information he receives.
A clear example took place in 2023, six months after October 7th, during the Beit Shemesh mayoral election. Certain Charedi factions were determined to remove Dr. Aliza Bloch, a Shomeret Torah U’mitzvot, and put forward their own candidate, Shmuel Greenberg—who, ironically, they later turned against to the point that he now requires heavy security just to leave his home.
To rally support, they rented a stadium—despite previously insisting that entering such a venue was forbidden—and managed to gather nearly 4,000 people for a Degel HaTorah event. On a Motzei Shabbos, they brought the elderly Rav Landau from Bnei Brak so he could address the crowd. I was there.
Rav Landau spoke for about five minutes, reading from notes. And what was the message? He declared that this municipal election constituted a “Milchemes Mitzvah.” Therefore, he said, eligible bochurim should close their Gemaras and vote. If they were learning outside Beit Shemesh, Degel would provide buses so they could travel back and forth—a trip that would involve at least five hours of missed learning—all because this was supposedly a “Milchemes Mitzvah.”
This took place during a period of constant sirens and runs to shelters, only months after October 7th. Yet according to this logic, the events of October 7th were not a Milchemes Mitzvah, but voting in a local mayoral race was. It’s hard to make sense of that.
And this brings us back to the original question: why did Rav Landau need notes for a five‑minute speech?
Because he was reading what others prepared for him. That’s the entire point.
The ones mocking Rav Landau are the Chareidim themselves who are afraid what he would say if he didn't have the notes! They think that he is basically a "dummy" and so they feed him carpola and hay and place it in a note for him to read!
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