“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l

Friday, April 17, 2026

Open Letter to the Roshei Yeshivos and to the Chareidie Community


An open letter to the Roshei Yeshivot and to the entire Chareidie public.

We are now on vacation from the yeshivas, your students are flooding the north, vacationing, bathing and having fun until they return to school. And we saw them this week in droves in the Sea of Galilee and in the north in general.

It could have been done differently. An entire country has been at war for two and a half years, more than 100,000 reservists are enlisted, their families are collapsing, businesses in the north are collapsing, farmers and residents of the conflict line are crying out for help.
One would have expected someone with a Jewish neshama to stop and say:
This year we will doing it differently.
This year, my students, won't go buy snacks and go to the Kinneret. This year we will volunteer, we will take part and inherit together with the people who sustain and protect  this country.

Tens of thousands of Rabbi Akiva's students died in the plague at this very time because they did not show respect to each other.
 Learn from the punishment they received from Heaven.
Hoping someone will hear this message and understand!

כתב פתוח לראשי הישיבות ולציבור החרדי כולו.
יש עכשיו חופשה מהישיבות, תלמידיכם מציפים את הצפון, נופשים, רוחצים ומבלים עד שיחזרו ללימודים (בין הזמנים). וראינו אותם השבוע בהמוניהם בכנרת ובצפון בכלל.
אפשר היה לעשות את זה אחרת. מדינה שלמה במלחמה כבר שנתיים וחצי, מעל 100 אלף אנשי מילואים מגויסים, משפחותיהם קורסות, עסקי הצפון קורסים, החקלאים ותושבי קו העימות משוועים לעזרה.
היה מצופה ממי שנשמה יהודית באפו לעצור ולומר:

השנה עושים את זה אחרת.
השנה תלמידי אל תלכו לקנות חטיפים ולכנרת לכו להתנדב, קחו חלק ונחלה יחד עם אנשים שמחזיקים את המדינה הזו.

עשרות אלפי תלמידיו של רבי עקיבא, מתו במגפה בדיוק בתקופה זו משום שלא נהגו כבוד זה לזה. תלמדו מהעונש שקיבלו מידי שמיים.

אני מקווה שאוזניים להם וישמעו.
 

6 comments:

Garnel Ironheart said...

As Rav Slifkin repeatedly points out, the Chareidim see no connection between themselves and the rest of the Jews in Israel. They are the stereotypical New Yorker who steps over the bleeding victim in the street because he has somewhere to go and that guy's bleeding isn't his problem.

Anonymous said...

such a cry baby, man made wars, we dont have to fight your war

Dusiznies said...

4:05
You Chareidim are the real apikorsim, you take G-d out of every single equation!
None of you really believes that "Torah Protects," as the Bnei-Brak elders just recently petitioned the Government for guns!
And I know where you got this "man-made wars" nonsense from,
from the Charedie Civil wars in Ponovitz, Ger, Satmar, Bobov, and Sadiger

Bnei Yoel said...

4:05
"We don't have to fight your war"
This is what is called in Shulchan Aruch פורץ גדר
And Shloime Hamelech says about people like you
פורץ גדר ינשכנו נחש

Anonymous said...

Man-made wars? I don’t even know where to start with you
Shoita would be a good start

Anonymous said...

To DIN 4:59
The 4:05pm guy who wrote "we dont have to fight your war" is not a chareidi. Really far from it. That smells like a Greta-worshiper or just an average liberal sicko...