Both the Chazon Ish and Rav Eliyashiv Wrote that "Everyone is required to Defend Israel in Milchemes Mitzva"

 

by Menachim Rehat as printed in the pamphlet Matzav Huruach

Loosely translated to English 

This is not the first time that the Chareidie leadership has lost sight of reality who unfortunately stand on the sidelines while others have been serving for 400 days, their families falling apart, their businesses collapsing, and their health severely undermined; this callousness will never be forgotten and will be remembered forever 

The greatest poskim including the Chazon Ish and Rabbi Elyashiv require going out to defend Israel 

1. At two historical junctures, the Charedie  leadership lost the ability to see reality that was expected of them. 

The first time was about 80 years ago, when the biggest disaster befell our people.

 At the time, the leadership did not read the map correctly and instructed its followers not to immigrate to the Land of Israel and to continue to cling to the impurity of exile, a move that ended with the loss of millions of our brothers in the furnaces of Auschwitz.

The second time, is happening now, right before our eyes, when Talmedei Chachamim and Torah scholars insist on preventing their followers, through all kinds of political twists, from coming to Israel's aid from the hand of the oppressor that insists on killing all of us even at these very moments. 

So they yell, as is the custom of Satmar and the Peleg,: "We shall be killed and not transgress. 'We will die and not enlist.' 

Listen to the rhetoric of Minister Meir Porush in the Knesset plenum: 

"If they had told us at the establishment of the State that it would look the way it does today, that we would not be able to study Torah in the Land of Israel, they would arrest yeshiva students who study Torah... In my opinion, Agudat Yisrael would say that it does not want a Jewish state."

So That's it?  Burn down the club. Is A third exile preferable?

Liberman warns Iran is ‘obsessed’ with revenge, calls for Israel to strike first

 

Former defense minister Avigdor Liberman said Saturday that Iran is “obsessed” with seeking revenge against Israel following the 12-day war between the two enemy nations, warning that Jerusalem will have to strike again at some point.

Liberman, who heads the opposition Yisrael Beytenu party, told the Channel 12 news program “Meet the Press” that revenge is “all the Iranian leadership thinks about.”

“I could tell you the same thing that the intelligence assessments and officials say” about Iran’s nuclear capabilities in the wake of the Israeli and US strikes, he added, saying “they all speak of around one to two years” for Iran to reconstitute its nuclear program.

While Tehran’s nuclear ambitions will remain a problem, Liberman said, “what is more worrying is that all Iran is currently obsessed with is waging a war of revenge” against Israel.

“That’s the only thing that interests them right now. A war of revenge, that’s it,” he stated.

When asked if he thinks that means Israel should attack Iran again, Liberman answered that “it would be worthwhile for us to strike first again.”

“This time, Iran wants to deliver the first blow,” he said.

He also said, “It’s not just theoretical” that Iran is working to revive its nuclear program.

“And what worries me most are the ballistic missiles,” Liberman said. “You saw what happened here when just 26 missiles landed inside Israel and the level of damage that it caused.”

“They are preparing for a major strike,” he continued, adding that Iran has thousands of missiles. “Imagine if it wasn’t just 26 missiles that impact Israel, what if it were 260 missiles? What kind of damage would that cause?”

Therefore, “we have no other choice” but to strike Iran first, according to Liberman, who said that is what he would do if he were in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position. “I hope that is what they are planning.”

“And I would tell the Mossad to work toward one goal: regime change,” he said, arguing that total regime change is the only way to ensure that Iran is not a threat to Israel.

Iran and Israel last exchanged blows after the Israeli military launched a surprise assault on nuclear and military targets inside Iran on June 13, 2025, kicking off a 12-day war between the two sides.

Israel said its assault was necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.

Though Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons, it enriched uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities. The Islamic Republic had taken recent steps toward weaponization, Israel said during the war.

Iran retaliated against Israel’s strikes by launching over 500 ballistic missiles and around 1,100 drones at Israel. The attacks killed 29 people and wounded over 3,000 in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals. Iran also attacked a US base in Qatar in retaliation for Washington’s strikes.

Obama "The Criminal" Exposed!

 

 "We had, in President Obama and his leadership team, people who did not want to accept the will of the American people in electing Donald Trump in 2016 - and therefore cooked up this treasonous conspiracy to... effectively launch a years-long coup against the sitting President of the United States."

DIN: I have to point out that the Satmar Rebbe of Monroe, R' Aaron Teitelbaum backed this criminal Obama against a Jewish Prime Minister, when PM Netanyahu came to address Congress on the danger of Iran. 

The Satmar Rebbe had his followers write thousands of letters to Congress to try to halt Netanyahu from speaking and not only that, but even after he spoke, the Satmar Rebbe denigrated and mocked a Jewish leader of millions of Jews! 

The Satmar Rebbe has yet to apologize for this perfidy, and to his pandering to an antisemite goy! 

This is surreal. Here in America, the Director of National Intelligence @DNIGabbard is now stating emphatically that a former President of the United States @BarackObama attempted a coup against the @POTUS @realDonaldTrump .

This is why @TulsiGabbard was attacked so relentlessly… pic.twitter.com/v0dK5xoKwb

— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) July 18, 2025

Crazy Ruling! Court Freezes Trump’s ICC Sanctions

 

A federal judge in Maine on Friday barred the Trump administration from enforcing sanctions on two U.S. citizens and human rights advocates who work with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

On April 11, Matthew Smith and Akila Radhakrishnan, a human rights nonprofit leader and lawyer, respectively, filed a 39-page lawsuit against President Donald Trump and several other members of his administration over an executive order that imposes sanctions on the ICC, prohibits certain interactions with designated ICC officials, and threatens both civil and criminal penalties for any such violations.

The lawsuit was premised on the idea that the sanctions "violate their First Amendment rights, and those of others like them, by prohibiting their constitutionally protected speech." The plaintiffs, in late April, requested a preliminary injunction barring the government "from imposing civil or criminal penalties on them" for "provision of speech-based services" to the ICC's Office of the Prosecutor (OTP).

Now, U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen, a Barack Obama appointee, has granted that requested relief in a 16-page order.

Connie Francis, Whose Ballads Dominated ’60s Pop Music, Dies at 87

 

You may ask why would I post this? 

Well I grew up in Crown Heights and so did Connie Francis, and even though she was an Italian shiksa, she spoke fluent Yiddish and even put out a very popular Yiddish Recording! 

Francis was born on December 12, 1937, to an Italian-American family (one of her grandfathers having immigrated from Reggio Calabria in 1905)^[2][3] in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, the first child of George Franconero (1911–1996) and Ida (née Ferrari-di Vito; 1911–2000). She spent her first years in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn area (Utica Avenue/St Mark's Place) before the family moved to New Jersey.^[4] Growing up in a mixed Italian-Jewish neighborhood, Francis became fluent in Yiddish, which led her later to record songs in Yiddish and Hebrew.^[4][5]

‘Too Close to Skver’: What One Mother Discovered About Her Neighbors

 

See the website that explains the Skver Terror Tactics on their neighbors!

As we stand on the threshold of the 17th of Tammuz and the start of the Three Weeks, I feel it’s important to highlight a different side of the so-called “Unholy Mile.” A few months ago, I took one of my children to a specialist in Westchester. In the waiting room, I noticed a young chassidish mother holding her baby. Later, as I was leaving, I saw her standing outside waiting for a taxi. I asked where she was headed. She said, “New Square.” I smiled and told her I lived in New Hempstead and would be happy to give her a ride. She gratefully accepted.

I think she may have misunderstood where I lived. On the way, she shared that it was “good” I lived in Wesley Hills and not too close to New Square. She explained that they didn’t want others moving nearby — chas v’shalom, they might want to send their children to their schools. So, leadership in the community came up with a plan: buy up the homes within a mile and rent them to non-Jews to discourage other frum families from settling there. She even mentioned her father-in-law had bought one of the houses.

I didn’t respond. I stayed quiet the rest of the way.

IS CBN TURNING???? Are they finally seeing the light?

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.

Religious Zionist Rabbis Oppose Partial Hostage Deal: ‘Harms War’s Main Goal- Defeating Hamas’

 

 In the midst of the advanced negotiations for a hostage deal with Hamas, several prominent rabbis from the Religious Zionist community have published a firm and uncompromising public declaration opposing the emerging deal.

In their letter, the rabbis warn that a partial deal undermines the goals of the war, endangers Israel’s security, and could worsen the situation of the hostages not included in the agreement.

The letter, titled “Public Declaration,” includes several points and reasons for opposing the proposed deal:

A. We, the rabbis, stand with the families of the hostages, the families of the murdered, and, lehavdil, with the soldiers — heroic families who carry on their shoulders the true spirit of the nation. We call for the return of the hostages through the defeat of the enemy.

B. The partial deal currently being negotiated is a dangerous one. It undermines, first and foremost, the main goal of the war, which is victory, and also harms the people of Israel and its unity.

C. A partial deal also harms and endangers the hostages who will not be released as part of it and who may remain in captivity for a very long time. The danger to the lives of those remaining hostages could grow.

D. The deal undermines Israel’s security. Hamas terrorists will exploit the pause to rebuild their strength and morale, and return to attacking our soldiers. They will view it as an Israeli surrender.

E. Halting the war and withdrawing from the area will, God forbid, cause many casualties among our soldiers.

F. It is our duty to defeat the enemy completely — to destroy its communities and expel all of its leaders from our land entirely. When Hamas is preoccupied with its survival, it will surrender. Only then can life in our land return to a healthy and whole path.

The letter is meant to serve as a call of responsibility from spiritual leadership to public officials — a reminder that a partial deal is not merely a tactical mistake, but a real danger to the future of the war, the state’s security, and our mutual responsibility toward the hostages and the soldiers.

The letter is signed by:

Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, Rabbi Eitan Eisman, Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi Yosef Artziel, Rabbi Moshe Gantz, Rabbi David Hai HaCohen, Rabbi Uri Cohen, Rabbi Michael Hershkovitz, Rabbi David Dudkevitch, Rabbi David Fendel, Rabbi Orel Spaz, Rabbi Netanel Yosifon, and Rabbi Baruch Wieder.

The letter echoes sentiments expressed both by Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich and Public Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who both oppose partial agreements and demand that Israel push Hamas until it surrenders and leaves the Gaza strip.

 

Zera Shimshon Parshat Pinchas

 

IDF Wishes Klall Yisrael a Shabbat Shalom