DIN: If you look in Tanach ( Shmuel 30:1) there is a similar "Oct 7 Story" with Dovid Hamelech. The Amalekites captured hostages, women and children in the city of Ziklag, if I'm not mistaken, Ziklag was close to Gaza. So what did Dovid do?? The Tanach writes that he cried until he could no longer shed tears.
The people who had their wives and children taken hostage wanted to "stone" him, even though Dovid had himself two wives and children taken hostage.
Why you ask would they want to stone him?
According to the Radak, "Dovid Hamelech left the city of Ziklag unprotected", sound familiar?
The Klei Yakar says something that we in the Chareidie world can relate to, he says that the people were angry at David Hamelech, since he had not lost any children in the army as they did !
But then what did he do?
He told the then Kohen Gadol, Ebiather, to inquire from the Urim Ve'Tumim on what to do.
To ask the Urim a question, it had to be specific. So what did Dovid Hamelech ask the Urim Ve'Tumim????
Did he ask what Kapital Tehillim to say? Did he first ask the Roshei Yeshivos to ask their talmidim to be "mechziek in Torah?"
Open a Tanach and be shocked to what he asked.
All he asked was " Should I go to war? And will I succeed?"
That's it!!!!
But why are we jumping to Tanach when we can go to the Torah itself , at the end of Parshas Mattos?
The Jews are ready to go into Eretz Yisrael after traveling 40 years in the Midbar, because they listened to the "gedoilim" who were part of the meraglim that didn't want Israel, and suddenly history repeats itself as two tribes now refuse to go into Eretz Yisrael. Shevet Gad and Shevet Reuvein, they wanted to remain in Chutz Le'aaretz.
Why? Because they as the Midrash Hagodal states: "They attached more importance to their herds, their wealth. and put heavy emphasis on their material possessions."
Moshe is of course in shock as we see just 2 verses down, he tells them the repercussions of the meraglim story! He reminds them of the reason they spent 40 years wandering.
But as Moshe regains his composure, he angrily asks them something the Roshei Yeshiva would like to remove from the Torah:
האחיכם יבאו למלחמה ואתם תשבו פה
"Shall your brothers go out to war while you remain here?"
See the Orach Hachyim Hakodosh who states:
אמת כי ה' הוא הנלחם להם, אבל על כל פנים צריכין להזדמן במלחמה
"It is true that Hashem is the one who does the battle, but you still have to be prepared for war"
Question: Why didn't Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuvein simply tell Moshe , that "we will learn Torah and as you know that Torah is matzil?" "Our learning is on the same level as those going to war, and our words of Torah will be the missiles and we are on the same plane as those putting their lives on the front"
They knew that this was a cockamamie excuse so they said " we will in fact fight with the IDF and then after the entire country is conquered will return to our families."
Did Moshe believe them? Apparently not, he made them sign the famous "Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuvein "tnai" a "tnai ka'ful"
In Moshe's army, learning in kolel or in Bais Medrish was not an exemption to get out of army service, So I'm sure you have been coached to respond to this that in Moshe's army, the troops were all tzadikkim. I agree, they were all tzadikkim, so my suggestion is to open the doors of Ponovitz, Brisk and Mir and draft all those tzaddikim and let's send all the chilonim home. ... Great!
Today Chareidie leaders have learned nothing from the Torah and nothing from Tnach, and not only that, they are actively discouraging the praising of those ready to give up their lives,!
Mind you, all this while Jewish blood is still pouring on the streets, and he questions whether those fallen are "kedoishim" ... What????
Such disconnect from the Jewish people and Jewish values. Even Hashem says:
עמו אנכי בצרה
Is it any wonder then, that a Rosh Yeshiva and an Av Bais Din who gave shiurim in the MIr compares Jewish soldiers to garbage cleaners?
And to which journalists is he addressing this to? Haaretz? Jerusalem Post? Israel Hayom?
Naaa!
He is addressing this to the journalists of the Yated!
Very sick indeed!
Rabbis of the Edah HaChareidis, a conservative haredi organization with anti-Zionist views, published a strongly worded letter yesterday against haredi journalists they believe to be promoting nationalism. The Rabbis were led by Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, a member of the organization's rabbinical court.
“It has become known in our communities and throughout Israel that a great error is present in the press who presume to call themselves haredi while spreading false opinions which are far from our ways,” the letter begins.
They criticized the way that haredi journalists are praising soldiers and casualties of the war, calling them "far from the ways of Old Israel."
“Especially at a time like this, when the spirit of nationalism is consuming the camp on every side, and many are pulled into false beliefs coming from scribes that are far from the ways of Old Israel, among them those who promote enlistment of men and women which is absolutely forbidden and has never even been considered to be permitted.”
“Let all mourners mourn the fall of the reinforced dividing wall that has existed since ancient times, and the one thing equal to all such publications and journalists is that they tend to spread and cause damage, and it is your responsibility to guard them.”
The Rabbis call for such publications not to be brought home. “These are not the portion of Israel, and indeed, the greatest men of previous generations have already warned and sounded an alarm in the gates of the masses against such publications, and we do not encourage everyone to check that each man of Israel supervises himself and his family against stumbling over these unfit publications, and someone who protects his soul will stay far from them, not buying them and not bringing home those that are distributed free of charge.”
“In a completely and diametrically opposed manner, it is obligatory that every man and his household and descendants bring the spirit of holiness and simple belief and trust in God into his house, to distance false beliefs and trust in mortals, and as the ancient parable stated by the prophet said: ‘wickedness will emerge from the wicked.’ And let us increase prayer to the Salvation of Israel in matters both public and private.”
