With the impending implementation of new Israeli draft laws that threaten to force thousands of bnei torah into the military, posing an unprecedented threat to limud hatorah in Eretz Yisroel – the very lifeblood of the Jewish nation, the Lakewood Roshei Yeshiva have issued a Kol Korei for everyone to join this monumental Atzeres Tefillah on Sunday in the heart Lakewood.
The Atzeres which will be attended by leading gedolim and Roshei Yeshiva, will start out with Mincha, and then Tehillim for our brethren in Eretz Yisroel and around the world, as the unprecedented threats continue to endanger Klal Yisroel. The Atzeres will also feature short speeches describing the gravity of this new law, and the threat it poses to the Olam Hatorah. The Atzeres will culminate with one of the Gedolim leading the thousands gathered with Kabolas Ol Malchus Shamayim to beseech Hashem to nullify the decrees and hasten the Geulah.
The atzeres is set to take place in the large parking lot across from Bais Aharon, bordering 9th and 10th Streets, and Clifton and Lexington Avenues. It will begin at 1:30 PM.
“Chareidim” are not always bnei Torah. Come on. We need to stop this.
Why can’t able bodied Yeshiva/Kollel students fight the threat to their lives and their loved ones, while others (elderly, sick, etc) take up the mantle of Torah for as long as the war needs to be won? There will be no “limud” if the enemy wins, and the “threat” to limud is actually no threat as long as others pick up the slack until the war is won. How do you think wars were waged in Dovid HaMelech’s times? Someone please explain this to me!
It’s not a shaas sakana that the chareidim need to enlist. There is no shortage of soldiers in the idf. There happens to be a war currently, but this debate of chareidim fighting has been a debate for many years.
This is part of a bigger picture that the Israeli government is trying to achieve, that the yeshivos close down and that all chareidim enlist in the army for the purpose of going into the army. The issue is that if yeshivos close down, then what will be with the Torah? Yes, soldiers can learn Torah in the army, but it’s not the same. Torah is a protection.
This has been the debate for many years in Eretz Yisroel and this is the Gezeras Giyus that there’s an atzeres tefillah to combat the gezera against yeshivos
In Dovid’s times, the Bais medrash was packed and they specifically kept people learning the whole time while war was going on. What’s going to win? the fact is that the only way we can win is if we have people sitting and learning. I am sorry if you do not understand this, but this is the fact
I wish I would have pledged a large donation to BMG so I could retract it once I saw this ” hafganah “
So glad I left lkwd
Which Gedolim are behind this asifah?
@Zalman I’m not sure where you get your versions of history from, but know that isn’t fact. Dovid hamelech’s army was only the biggest “bnei Torah” of that generation. There is a time and place for everything, and during a war is not the time to be sitting a spacing out over a gemora, “because anything is better then joining with those terrible zionists”