https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/283070
Rabbi Yitzhak Koldetzki, the son-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky,
called for a gathering of supplications and prayer in order to prevent
the further deterioration of those who spend their days in yeshivas, Kikar Hashabbat reported.
Due to closures caused by the coronavirus outbreak, yeshiva students -
like other students - have spent only minimal time in their yeshiva
settings over the past few months. As a result, parents and educators
are struggling in the face of a reality in which the spiritual level of
their students has radically declined, in some cases to a "critical
level."
Kikar Hashabbat quoted Rabbi Koldetzki as telling a small
number of people that "the situation in general is much lighter, and
there are less seriously ill [people]."
He added that "unfortunately there are certain young men who do not
live in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem, who have not come to yeshiva. We are
concerned that young men, a very large number of them, have not returned
and have fallen into the streets. This is a life-threatening situation,
when they do not come to the yeshivas."
"What the Zionists have not managed to do in 70 years, in these
trials we have lost young men. We must pray that they are all healthy,"
he mourned, calling for special prayers until the beginning of the
Hebrew month of Elul.
This shows the danger of mindless routine.
ReplyDeleteIn today's era of books easily being available and affordable, there's no reason the real shteiger can't sit at home and learn all day long. If he was allowed to have the internet, he could have live chavrusa sessions and shiurim. But he was painted into a corner - this is the only way to learn! - and now he's stuck.
"Zionists".... what a complete fool!
ReplyDeleteThis shows the mindless danger of rabbi Kojak, who sees "Zionism" as the biggest threat to Judaism. He's presumably of the Samar influence, or some other equally ridiculous sect.
ReplyDeleteHerzl's Legacy
ReplyDeleteThat so many Jewish lives were saved from murder and persecution, and returned to the promised land, and are free from shibbud malchiut - yes.
ReplyDeleteAnd how much money is given to them to sit and study without expecting any service in return.
ReplyDeleteActually, i am retracting my support for certain sectors og State apparatus. The police have become a fascist force, beating up old ladies because the mask doesnt cover the nose.
ReplyDeleteIts nothing to do with Herzl or zionism. It is people who are not educated in zionism at all who do this.
how fickle and naive
ReplyDeleteSuit yourself
ReplyDeletethey sometimes make it sound like they preferred the Tzar, the pogroms, cossacks, Kielmnecki, the pale of settlement, rather than living in EY , having government support yeshivas, much shorter conscriptions in the army than in Russia, and the avaialbilty of glatt kosher kitchens in the army, if they ever serve.
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