Against the backdrop of media reports that young men from the Lithuanian public's "flagship yeshivahs" have enlisted in the IDF: Head of the Ha-Grama Hirsch gave a speech this evening to thousands of yeshivah students who gathered in Bnei Brak - and attacked all initiatives to integrate Haredim into the IDF.
The full words of the Rosh Yeshiva:
"Today you know what the problem is with the army, and there are people who seduce, seduce young men, seduce them, leave the yeshiva, come, it's all kinds of things, the Haredi order, and more and more things, and all kinds of people, come...
Thank God, in a small yeshiva you didn't have this experience, but it's possible that in a large yeshiva you will have this experience, you know, that you shouldn't choose to think half a thought out of leaving the yeshiva, each one of you, the yeshiva, each one of us...
We owe, we owe to the Holy One, blessed be He, we owe to all Israel, our Torah, our Torah, it brings all salvation, and I will explain to you why: our Torah brings that the Holy One, blessed be He, is closer to us, and if the Holy One, blessed be He, is closer to us, this is the whole virtue of divine help, all the divine help that we will be able to receive in general and in particular, it is only if there is a lot of Torah, when there is a Torah for the Holy One, blessed be He, enters into us.
Then we will be able to succeed. But not to be tempted. God forbid to hear from anyone who talks about some nonsense about going out, God forbid and peace, all kinds of ways like that, and the Holy One, blessed be He, will help each and every one to grow and grow and grow, to sanctify the name of heaven to bring glory to heaven.
And by your study at the highest level, it will bring glory to Heaven and complete redemption soon in our days, Amen."
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