A rare support gathering was held today (Tuesday) under the leadership of Maran Hared Lando and Germa Hirsch, and with the participation of dozens of yeshivot heads, community rabbis, and heads of kollel from the city of Elad.
The conference, which took place at the home of Rabbi Lando in Bnei Brak, was held in preparation for the fateful elections in Elad, and included speeches on the obligation to vote for the Degel list and for its mayoral candidate Yisrael Porush, with sincere concern for the spiritual future of the Haredi city.
Thus, in preparation for the election campaign, the rabbi and the rabbi expressed their desire to directly express their views to the general public, through the city's rabbis, heads of yeshivahs and heads of kollelim, so that "they would be messengers to speak the mitzvah, to inspire, to act and to activate the duty of the holy campaign."
Yeshiva head Rabbi Lando said in his address to the gathering: "We are gathering here for the glory of God. It is clear that in the city of Elad the spiritual future of the city is at stake, and as I have known the city for many years, the duty is to support Rabbi Yisrael Porush for mayor. This is the salvation of the city, and this will bring the city to the continuation of its full Torah development, further and further with divine help."
"And another inseparable thing, from my personal acquaintance with the representatives of Degel HaTorah in the city of Elad, I know that they have acted and are acting according to the great Torah scholars, and they have a special responsibility and a keen understanding of the city's needs in all respects, spiritually and materially, and they receive divine support in their work. Therefore, it is mandatory to vote for the list of those who fear God, the letters of Degel, and for the candidate for mayor, Rabbi Yisrael Porosh."
The head of the yeshiva asked the city's rabbis to inspire the public: "You need to strengthen the obligation to vote, as we have said, and to inspire those who listen to your teachings to act appropriately, to hurry up and urge others to vote 'Degel' and for Rabbi Yisrael Porosh for mayor. And God, the Blessed, will bless the city, and peace and quiet and security will dwell therein."
After him, the Grand Rabbi Hirsch spoke, who emphasized at the beginning of his remarks that although there is nothing to add beyond "the clear words we heard from the head of the yeshiva, we must remember that the future of the city is at stake here, and in spirituality there is no place for games.
"Therefore," said the Grand Rabbi, "the rabbis must act not only in retreat and do nothing but in action to awaken the public to its great duty these days, that each one should take care to act for himself and exert his influence on all those around him, and that no one should evade the duty of voting - both for the Degel Hator list and for the mayoral candidate Rabbi Israel Porush."
"And through this activity, we will all merit that His name may be sanctified and the glory of Heaven may increase. And all who assist in this are blessed, and blessed is their portion, and the merit of many is their assistance."
At the end, Rabbi Eli Shapira, one of the rabbis of the Netivot Hochma Yeshiva, read the resolutions of the conference, with all those present signing:
Rabbi Yaakov Stefansky, Rosh Yeshiva Torah Tafiratha
Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Ettinger, Rosh Yeshiva of Knesset Yehezkel
Rabbi Yehuda Tsarum, Gab"d of the yeshivot students
Rabbi Shmuel Cohen, Rabbi of the Elad Yeshivot Students' Community
Rabbi Dov Rozin, Rabbi of Derech HaChaim neighborhood
Rabbi Tuvia Blau, Rabbi of the Degel HaTorah neighborhood
Rabbi Ephraim Rothschild, one of the leaders of Torah in its glory
Rabbi Rafael Geffen, one of the foremost Torah scholars
Rabbi Matityahu Zeev Shtiegel, one of the greatest Torah scholars
Rabbi Aharon Hadad, Rosh Yeshivot Shaarei Tivna
Rabbi Reuven Katz, head of the Bnei Reuven Yeshiva
Rabbi Shmuel Baruch Ganut, one of the heads of the Mashat HaMelech Yeshiva
Rabbi Shlomo Kissus, Chief of Staff of Sephardic Yeshiva Students
Rabbi Eran Gerish, Head of Yeshivat Ohel Avraham and Rabbi of the Od Yosef Chai Bnei Yemenite
Rabbi Avshalom Mor, one of the rabbis of Yeshiva Tiferet Halevi Elad and a rabbi at the Ohel Tamar Sephardic seminary
Rabbi Yishai Hazan, Rosh Yeshiva Ohel Avraham
Rabbi Chaim Mann, Rosh Yeshiva of Be'er Talmud
Rabbi Aryeh Boyar, Rosh Yeshiva of Be'er Talmud
Rabbi Moshe Katsav, Head of Kollel
Rabbi Alon Avitan, Head of the Elad Rabbi Pe'alim Kollel
Rabbi David Braverman, head of the Eliyahu Midrash and rabbis of Yeshiva Tor in its glory
Rabbi Mordechai Shapira, Rosh Yeshiva
Rabbi Shimon Galinsky, Rabbi of the King's Pleasures and Rabbi of Elad
Rabbi Lior Halili, head of the 'Edot Yisrael' Elad kollel
Rabbi Eliyahu Shapira, one of the Netivot Hochma rabbis and head of the Ramat Meir kollel
Rabbi Eliav Gortler, Senior Lecturer at Badatz Elad
Rabbi Mordechai Ceciler, Rabbi of the Nachalat Moshe Elad community
Rabbi Yigal Brown, Chief Rabbi of the Beit Hillel Elad Court
Rabbi Yisrael Mordechai Greenberg, Community Leader of the Memorial of Avraham Elad
Rabbi David Jacobson, Spiritual Director of the Yaakov Communities
Rabbi Menashe Paniri, Rabbi of Nehora Da'Oriyata Yeshiva and Spiritual Director of Da'at Torah
Rabbi Yisrael Klein, Director of the Da'at Torah Elad
Rabbi Ish Turtzin, supervisor at the Slobodka Yeshiva
Rabbi Zvi Goldstein, Rabbi of the Sloboda Elad community
Rabbi Avinoam Cohen, Rabbi of the Yemanite Students' Seminary, Mishkan Yaakov and Hannah
And the Degel Elad list candidates:
Rabbi Avraham Stern, Rabbi Moshe Bardugo, Rabbi Yosef Verzbinsky, Rabbi Isser Shapira, Rabbi Ephraim Ziat, and Rabbi Yaakov Verzbinsky, heads of yeshivot institutions, Archot Torah and Torah in its glory.
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