BS"D
Making Ba'alas Teshuva-Baiting Great Again
3 Menachem Av, 5780 °° July 24, '20 (Parshas Devarim)
by Binyomin Feinberg
We
received documentation on the latest developments in another case of a
religious female Refusenik, Kasanya Z., a recent Ba'alas Teshuva [newly
Torah-Observant], studying in religious school in Ramot. She is being
terrorized with the spectre of arrest and incarceration in Israeli
Military Prison, over her steadfast resolve to comply with the Torah
obligations of refusal of Israeli military draft directives. Her draft
date is this coming Sunday, July 26. The Draft Office just sent a denial
of the request recently made by an attorney intervening on her behalf.
So, the Army is primed for a confrontation.
The
Chazon Ish is known to have advocated for employment of unusually
strong measures to save girls from the draft. If those of us who are
graced with the capacity to intervene in a civil manner do so
expeditiously, that option generally proves more than sufficient, to
avoid the alternatives.
As we posted yesterday (https://
The
fact that Kasanya initially received a draft deferment apparently is
being leveraged to proffer the veneer of a rationale to persecute her
over her choice to opt for religious observance, as if her deferment was
conditional to shunning repentance.
Of course,
the Draft Office, the bastions of timeless truth that they are, are
ever vigilant for girls faking religiosity. However, personal reference
is the standard protocol to vet such girls. Rayon Dat is utterly
unnecessary and counterproductive.
Speaking
about faking Judaism, see the quote in the aforementioned post of
yesterday, in a somewhat different context, from a member of the CJV.
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In commemoration of the release of the esteemed b'nos Beruria sisters one year ago, we repost this:
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"... And if someone, like Pinchos, is one among a multitude, and every man is against him when he dares to speak out for truth and to fight for the Law -- the more lonely his stand, the greater the number of his adversaries, the more powerful is his word, the mightier his deed."
-- Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch OB"M (1808-1888), (in "Judaism Eternal," vol. 2, p. 293)
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