Lt. Col. Yishai Eitan, head of the IDF Halacha Division, reportedly issued instructions that soldiers must wear tzitzis made of a special cool fabric and not wool.
An unidentified soldier told Radio Kol Chai that although such an order existed, his commanders turned a blind eye when he insisted on a woolen garment. Another soldier, Uri Tam, said that individual commanders sometimes made him remove even the cool fabric tzitzis until he resisted.
An army spokesman explained that soldiers were generally allowed to wear woolen tzitzis. But for extreme weather, when heat exhaustion might be life threatening, the Army Rabbinate supplied cool tzitzis to allow soldiers to maintain their religious lifestyle.
{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau}
well, they also oppose any and all other mitzvos in the Torah. No news here
Seeing as how the GR”A and Chazon Ish wore cotton begadim, and there is a sofek sakana, this seems straightforward.
But don’t you see everything must devolve into an antizionist tirade! You expect comment sense. Ha!
Are woolen socks and woolen sweaters also sakana?
When you are mekabel all of the GR”A’s chumras, then you can bring up what you feel ar his kulas
They should oppose chareidim in the army for their benefit and for the benefit of chareidim.
Must hold from the Brisker minhag
The GR”A also wore (woolen) tallis and tefillin all day. Let them try that.
“Cool” tzitzis are likely a mesh material which may not even be cotton but rather a man-made material which would be patur from tzitzis (i.e. they don’t get a mitzvah for wearing). Even cotton mesh begadim may be patur because they are parutz merubah al ha’omeid.
We will burn the zionishtins wool flag, u like that???!!!
This site seems to be so PRO PELEG! Its gotten out of hand!
White cotton tzitzis is not as noticeable while the woolen tzitzis with the black stripes look too holy, too Jewish, too religious, too chareidi, hence it needs to outlawed in the shmad army.
Wool tzirzis are made of a very thin fabric, that may be less comfortable than cotton but poses no realistic danger of overheating – we are not talking about a sweater and a coat here. As this has nothing to do with safety, this a clear case of Judenrat trying to impose micromanagement and control.
The arabs wore woolen clothing in the hot desert.it protected them from the hat of the sun so whats theheat problem with woolen tzitzis?
I’ve always worn cotton Tzitzis. Am I a shaigetz?
Did anyone call you a shaigetz or do you have some kind of inferiority complex? Apparently you have missed the topic of the conversation: we are not discussing hilchos tzitzis, we are talking about the judenrat butting in soldiers’ personal matters, completely unrelated to anything military, while welcoming all kinds of toeiva. It is not an isolated incident, but a part of the greater plan to remove Jewishness from the supposedly Jewish state.
Natural fibers actually absorb heat….