Mass Early Morning ‘Sack and Ashes’ Rally Against Haredi Draft
Latest update: January 27th, 2013
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"Sack and Ashes" assembly against the decree of military and national service.
Photo Credit: Yosef Shalom / Rotter
Media reports on the decision being reached in the Knesset committee examining alternatives to the Tel law, have brought about an unexpected collaboration between the Lithuanians moderates and the more extremist HaEdah HaHaredit to fight drafting young Haredi men into the IDF. At 4:45 Monday morning, thousands demonstrated in Jerusalem’s “Shabbat Square” in protest against curbing draft exemptions for Yeshiva students.
The assembly of at least 2000 began by saying Slichot, led by Rabbi Yaakov Chanun, who is the baal tefilah at the Munkatch beit Midrash on the High Holidays.
The assembled repeated chapters of Psalms, verse by verse, and sat down on the ground in mourning just as Jews do on the day of Tisha B’Av.
In recent days it appeared that the planned demonstration would remain within the sector of the Edah HaHaredit, which is considered the most extreme and conservative in the ultra-Orthodox community. But on Sunday it was announced that Rabbis Shmuel Halevi Wosner, an esteemed Hassidic posek, and Lithuanian Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky had signed a Call to join the protest.
Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach and other rabbis have joined the call to demonstrate.
Haredi party newspaper “Hamodia”, “Yated Ne’eman” and “Hamevaser” gave major headlines to stories about the Monday morning prayer rally, which indicates its wide support among the Haredi leaders.
The original ad published by Haeda HaHaredit stated that “we are prepared with the utmost devotion to fight for the integrity of our holy Torah and not sacrifice any one from Israel to the military Molech.”
The Molech was a biblical idol in front of which parents burned their children.
For a response to this event, see Felafel on Rye.
tell a friendAbout the Author: Dovid Schwartz is an owner of JewishPress.com and chairman of the Karnei Shomron Likud branch.
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Willsomeone tell those pathetic crybabies that the despised Moloch (the IDF) is what protects their skinny little tuchuses from being knifed by our Arab and Moslem "neighbors"?
And it's theGov&the non haredi Israelis who work for a living who, via high taxes, support these ingrates and their large broods!
Weknow that ALL the gedolim of the pastendorsed the idea that each Jew should when necessary leave the study hall and shoulder the responsibility LIKE A MAN to defend Am Yisrael and of course himself and family, too. In short, what these current rebbeim are saying flies in the face of Orthodox Judaism and so yes, they are HERETICS.
Think about it– the Reformers are heretics one side and these allies of Netura Karta are heretics on the other side, in short, both are POISON in our bloodstream.
I think that like anything else, if they want to involve the orthodox and intergrate them into the army, then they should do what they do best, take over the army. make it sneot, have lots of learning, and do keruv with those jews who are out of touch. not only that, they should seperate the goyim from the jews on the idf and I guarantee you that the hussidim will find a way to do just that.
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