I’m sharing this video — and I have hundreds more just like it — to make a very simple point.
Charedim constantly tell themselves, and tell the rest of us, that the reason they don’t enlist in the IDF is because they’re afraid they’ll go off the derech.
But look closely at the people in this video. Every single one of them went off the derech — and not one of them ever served in the army. Not one.
They were all raised in the heart of the Charedi world: Bnei Brak, Beitar Illit, Beit Shemesh Bet, and Meah Shearim. They have zero connection to the Dati Leumi communities.
Recently, they told a reporter that had they been given the opportunity to serve, it’s very likely they would have stayed frum.
I don’t know if that’s true — nobody can know for sure. But one thing is certain:
At the very least, they would have served in a Jewish army and had the zchus of being moser nefesh for the rest of Klal Yisrael.
1 comment:
Again, this is one of the DL community's biggest failures. There should be a DL system like Chabad as with outreach to people on the edge of Meah Shearim. Yes you can be frum without being in a nutbar lifestyle. Yes you can be frum and serve in the army, work and have a normal life. Something that will keep folks like this on the derech and give them happiness.
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