In a dramatic show of solidarity with yeshiva students imprisoned in Israel for their refusal to enlist in the IDF, tens of thousands of Jews from across the United States are expected to gather in Manhattan for what organizers are calling an “unprecedented protest.” The rally has been called under the directive of the Satmar Rebbe and is being coordinated by the Hisachdus Harabbonim (Satmar) of the United States and Canada.
The Hisachdus’s public call urged “the tens of thousands of our brethren living in America” to join together this coming Monday, Parshas Re’eh, for a massive protest against the Israeli draft decrees and what they describe as the police’s heavy-handed actions following the arrests of yeshiva students “for the offense of learning Torah.”
Organizers declared that the rally would be “the beginning of a war for Hashem against Amalek among the Jews of the Diaspora, to stand at the side of our brothers in Eretz HaKodesh.” The notice added: “Anan me’hacha v’aton me’hasam! Hear, O Yisroel! Today you draw near to the battle!” It concluded with a rallying cry: “In our tens of thousands we will march to the front, and to Hashem is the salvation!”
Some attendees are planning to wear sackcloth and ashes as a public symbol of mourning over the assault on the Torah world.
The event is set to take place in the heart of Manhattan and will be attended by admorim, rabbanim, and roshei yeshiva.
This large-scale protest follows a string of recent demonstrations in Israel. On Wednesday night, thousands gathered outside Prison 10 in Israel, led by prominent admorim, to denounce the imprisonment of yeshiva students and avreichim. On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of roshei yeshiva from across the spectrum are expected to gather outside Prison 10 for a special tefillah rally.
In recent days, leading gedolim—including Rav Dov Landau, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, and members of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah, Rav Moshe Maya, Rav Avraham Salim, and Rav Shimon Bitton—have personally traveled to the prison to visit the detainees, offering words of chizuk.
{Matzav.com}
The facts speak for themselves. The Israeli army is made up of thousands of Torah scholars. Last week, the soldiers in the Netzach Yehuda Battalion completed the study of the entire Shas in memory of four soldiers who had died in action.
The initiative to study and complete the Talmud was led by the Netzah Yehuda Organization (the Nahal Haredi) in cooperation with the Battalion’s commanders. Soldiers divided the Talmud among their units, with each platoon assigned several tractates. Following an intensive study period, the Shas was completed twice in memory of the fallen. THIS IS AMALEK????? THESE ARE TZADIKIM!!!!!!
The closing ceremony was held at the Gvanim Community Center Hall in Beit Shemesh with the participation of the Sephardic Chief Rabbi David Yosef, former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau, members of the bereaved families, the Battalion’s soldiers, rabbis in the Association, Deputy Mayor Motti Leitner, City Council Member Tami Zussman, and other distinguished guests.
You are living in a dream. The army may have many soldiers who learn Torah, but the hundreds of thousands who have been indoctrinated and brainwashed to believe in the zionist agenda far outweighs those who managed to overcome and stay faithful to the Torah.
THIS IS EXTREMELY INSPIRING, BUT AN EXTREME EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.The Amalekim (and it is well known that there is a tradition that in the ikvesa d’meshicha that the Jewish leaders will be descendants of Amalek and the eruv rav) are clearly the israeli supreme court and all the anti-Torah secular leaders that have passed this draft law and who are implementing it with cruelty and hatred for the Chareidi community. NO ONE has ever accused the tzaddikim you refer to as being part of this movement. You are simply positing a “straw man” and I don’t know why, unless you also side with the Amalekim to FORCIBLY UPROOT bachurim from the study of Torah in Yeshivos due to your ‘nationalistic” beliefs which run counter to Gedolei Yisroel.
Ah, you know things that Gedolei Yisroel don’t know!!
Please, what’s your address, and when are you open for kabollas kahal?
How much Torah you learn is objective, how much you let it teach you is the difference. While I shockingly agree with you that the siyum was an amazing feat and I’m extremely proud of our soldiers, I also know how much true Torah learning is what protects us as a nation. True Torah learning is when our Bochurim are 100 percent immersed in Torah and Tefillah in the great study halls of our Yeshivos from morning until late at night. That is the only way to let the transformative powers of Torah protect us as a nation. Learn Nach and you will see how many miracles Hashem has done for us. We don’t win wars Hashem does it all for us. With this thought in mind how can we take the greatest protectors we have and put them into the army? How many hours of their learning are they going to have to cut out? In the little remaining time they have, how much energy will they have to sweat, fight, and toil to come to a true understanding? Very importantly, how will we be able to guard their yiddishkeit? I know just how much discrimination the Nachal Charedi units receive every day. I also know that roughly 50% of Nachal Charedi soldiers leave their yiddishkeit with the army. Is this what we want as a nation? Our greatest protectors leaving their battle stations for half to lose all their yiddishkeit while the other half loses the transformative years of greatness? I am young enough to have many friends who went to the religious brigades, and it’s sad how many left it all behind. If you were a CEO of a company, would you send your most productive employees anywhere knowing half will leave you, and the other half total production will take a severe dip? Let’s not make this mistake with our Chief Bochurim in Command who are doing the real work to bring the downfall of our enemies and keep Am Yisrael Chai
With all due respect, the army does not consist of thousands of scholars. Most of the soldiers from the haredi section of the ones that could not make it in the regular yeshiva. Second of all, no one chas veshalom called the soldiers amalek. There are only referring to the government as amalek as per the words of the vilna gaon that before Moshiach comes the Jewish Nation will be under the control of other Jews which are reincarnation of amalek. There’s no question that if this draft continues and all the bochurim drafted that will be the end of the chareidim. The government understands this and the gedolim understand this and hence the draft and the protest against it.
All those things are very nice and may be exactly what Hashem expects for those people. On the other hand, the ability to sit and toil in to the real depths of Torah to the greatest extent possible needs to always remain an ability to anyone who wants to devote themselves to it. This is ultimately the purpose of creation according to classic Jewish thought. Any government that tries to put an end to that will ultimately fail.
Alright. Calm down kubby. They’re trying to make a spiritual point. No need for you to get all worked up.
So you loser editors will print the stupidity of this lady but you won’t print basic daas torah. Such fine bnei torah All of you are
Yehudit, I used to believe as you, but after one son has been serving in one of the charedi units, please believe me, they are not Torah scholars, nor are they generally learning Torah in their free time.
Many are very good boys in other ways, but not tzaddikim and not Torah scholars.
This one instance you describe also does not at all characterize them, though it’s of course wonderful that they did that.
Satmar fantasies aside, the Litvishe world at large will not go along with their extreme positions, including the use of Amalek here, against a medina that has given so much to lomdei Torah for so long.
The Litveshe Torah world has always been against the zionist medina, regardless of the money that we’ve received from them. We receive money from man countries that we reside in, but we do not support them, especially when they are out to destroy the Torah.
Yes, they are out “to destroy Torah”, that is why they have given so much to lomdei Torah since 1977???
There has probably never been more achdus in the Frum world around this topic than there is now.
So, enjoy the fantasies
Really now?
Yehudit and Caveat emptor, your comments reflect a lack of proper education and understanding on what this conflict is all about. While it’s commendable that there are Chareidim who are learning Torah in the army and defending Klal Yisroel, this is not what it’s about. Since the time of the Chazon Ish Zatzal and Rav Shach Zatzal and the establishment of Ponovez Yeshiva, Chevron Yeshiva and others, learning Torah has been the mainstay of the Chareidi world in Eretz Yisroel and a proven Zechus for the continued existence of Eretz Yisroel. For many decades before 1948, holy Tzadikim settled in Eretz Yisroel as can be seen by the numerous Kivrei Tzadikim all across Eretz Yisroel. In those times, Eretz Yisroel was ruled by foreign countries such as by the Ottoman Empire and by the British Mandate. Then came the pre-IDF military brigades: Haganah, Irgun and Lechi. Before they joined forces to become the IDF in 1948, they had major ideological differences. They were all set on the Zionist ideal of creating a Jewish state but disagreed about how to achieve this goal. Between Ben Gurion’s diplomatic approach, Begin’s pro-active one, and the Stern Gang’s radicalism tensions ran high. Were any of these leaders Shomrei Torah U’Mitzvos? What was their ideology for establishing a Jewish State? To serve Hashem, keep His Mitzvos and learn His Torah like we read in Kriyas Shema three times a day, and like the Tzadikim like the Arizal, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Rav Shteinman Zatzal, and many others? No. Their purpose of the establishment of the state was to be like all of the other nations. Any mention of Yiddishkeit was thrown out of the eduction system. Do you know that there are Jewish children born in Eretz Yisroel who don’t even know what Shema Yisroel is? How did that happen? Most of the Yidden who settled Eretz Yisroel were frum or came from frum homes in Europe. But the Medina was on a mission to eradicate anything associated with the Torah. This included the way the IDF was run. Mixed genders in units, non Tznius, and many other stuff going on that should not be mentioned here. When you have a military that wants nothing do with Hashem’s Torah, why would Bnei Torah who want to dedicate their lives to study Torah out themselves in such an environment. Yes, recently they started special Chareidi units that were separated by gender, had a high standard of Kashrus and daily Minyanim and Limud. What you need to understand is the ideology of Rav Kook and Rav Shach regarding Bnei Torah serving in the IDF. It is too lengthy for me to go into all the details here. Let’s just say it like this: When the roots of the tree are rotten, the tree ends up dying. Only the Torah and those that uphold it exist forever.
And the reference to Amalek is the idea that just like Amalek wants to destroy Klal Yisroel, so too the Erav Rav leaders of the Israeli government want to destroy the Ruchiniyus of Klal Yisroel which is no less or even greater than the existential threat. So yes, the correlation is correct. Mitzrayim also gave food and shelter to Am Yisroel for 210 and for that reason we have a special Mitzvah to be kind to Geirim because “we were strangers in a strange land” and Mitzriyim can join Klal Yisroel ultimately because we have Hakaras Hatov. But it doesn’t negate the suffering they did to the Yidden and the ultimate punishment they received for it.
Amalek got punished for “cooling down the bath”, the nations of the world were awed by the Nissim done to the Yidden by Yetzias Mitzrayim and didn’t dare come close to them, until Amalek attacked and then the other nations followed…
What the Medina is trying to do is an attack on the Bnei Torah that have been sacred and moser Nefesh to Limud Hatorah V’Kiyuma and now they’re trying to “cool the bath” and convince Klal Yisroel that Limud Torah is worth less than guns and rifles and destroy the Neshama of Eretz Hakodesh.
I BEG TO DIFFER. GO TO THE RALLY, and I guarante it will be FILLED with Litvesha bachurim. This is not a “Satmar” issue, it is a FRUM, BNEI TORAH issue. Methinks you just have some unholy sinas chinam against Satmar. It is obvious, and predicted in the sefarim hakedoshim that descendants of Amalek and the eruv rav will sieze control of Jewish leadership in the days before the coming of Moshiach. And they are waging a war AGAINST TORAH.
How can you call a yid עמלק?
Where in Manhattan specifically and what time?
Using the word Amalek against our brothers is so wrong! Do we agree with them? No! But to call them Amalek only makes things worse.
My nephews, who were in yeshiva before entering the IDF, are not Amalek.
My nephews, who daven and learn daily while in the army, are not Amalek.
My nephews, whose lives are at risk while protecting acheinu bais Yisroel and whose safety we daven and say tehillim for, are not Amalek.
My nephews, who attended far too many levayos of their yeshiva friends (who were also shomrei Torah umitvos) who lost their lives in the current war, are not Amalek.
My nephews, some of whom have kids of their own, say goodbye to their families and go off to Gaza, Syria and Lebanon to fight those who want to exterminate each and every last Jew simply because they are Jewish, are not Amalek.
May Hashem watch over and protect them.
To the previous 2 posters-
They are not calling the soldiers in the IDF or Netzach Yehuda Amalek. THat is the furthest thing from the truth and from their intent.
They are referring specifically and only to the members of government that are trying to force bnei yeshivos to leave the yeshiva and draft to the army.
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And make no mistake- the litvishe/chassidish/sephardi olam will all rally together for this fight because it is viewed as an existential one for anyone whop considers themselves chareidi. None of them will care what flavor of chareidi it is, if you’re in that camp, you will be part of this battle. If not, then you’re not really chareidi (could be a very frum mizrachi but not a ‘chareidi’).
Please be clear on the facts.
Yehudit and Caveat emptor, your comments reflect a lack of proper education and understanding on what this conflict is all about. While it’s commendable that there are Chareidim who are learning Torah in the army and defending Klal Yisroel, this is not what it’s about. Since the time of the Chazon Ish Zatzal and Rav Shach Zatzal and the establishment of Ponovez Yeshiva, Chevron Yeshiva and others, learning Torah has been the mainstay of the Chareidi world in Eretz Yisroel and a proven Zechus for the continued existence of Eretz Yisroel. For many decades before 1948, holy Tzadikim settled in Eretz Yisroel as can be seen by the numerous Kivrei Tzadikim all across Eretz Yisroel. In those times, Eretz Yisroel was ruled by foreign countries such as by the Ottoman Empire and by the British Mandate. Then came the pre-IDF military brigades: Haganah, Irgun and Lechi. Before they joined forces to become the IDF in 1948, they had major ideological differences. They were all set on the Zionist ideal of creating a Jewish state but disagreed about how to achieve this goal. Between Ben Gurion’s diplomatic approach, Begin’s pro-active one, and the Stern Gang’s radicalism tensions ran high. Were any of these leaders Shomrei Torah U’Mitzvos? What was their ideology for establishing a Jewish State? To serve Hashem, keep His Mitzvos and learn His Torah like we read in Kriyas Shema three times a day, and like the Tzadikim like the Arizal, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Rav Shteinman Zatzal, and many others? No. Their purpose of the establishment of the state was to be like all of the other nations. Any mention of Yiddishkeit was thrown out of the eduction system. Do you know that there are Jewish children born in Eretz Yisroel who don’t even know what Shema Yisroel is? How did that happen? Most of the Yidden who settled Eretz Yisroel were frum or came from frum homes in Europe. But the Medina was on a mission to eradicate anything associated with the Torah. This included the way the IDF was run. Mixed genders in units, non Tznius, and many other stuff going on that should not be mentioned here. When you have a military that wants nothing do with Hashem’s Torah, why would Bnei Torah who want to dedicate their lives to study Torah out themselves in such an environment. Yes, recently they started special Chareidi units that were separated by gender, had a high standard of Kashrus and daily Minyanim and Limud. What you need to understand is the ideology of Rav Kook and Rav Shach regarding Bnei Torah serving in the IDF. It is too lengthy for me to go into all the details here. Let’s just say it like this: When the roots of the tree are rotten, the tree ends up dying. Only the Torah and those that uphold it exist forever.
Interesting that Matzav didn’t post the hour and/or location for this waste of
time.
Kol Hakavod!
Huge chillul hashem to do this in Manhattan, all non jews will see is jews protesting the one Jewish state.
story goes that when a politician came to reb yoelish and told him the usual platitudes how he is so pro-israel and the rebbe just smiled and and thanked him, after when he was asked why did not explain the Satmar position he explained that for a non-jew Israel = Jews and they cannot differentiate.
When Israel is attacked from every side, both “friends” and foes, and anti-Semitism has raised its ugly head, shows of inter-Jewish hatred and ill-feeling are counterproductive. How does that idiot, rosho Palestinian sympathizer feel when he sees an “authentic” Jew in full Hassidic regalia, come and protest against Israel? He feels vindicated, even if he has no idea where Israel is on the map, nor what the global and national issues at hand are!! Plainly, a justification for more violence against yidden around the world. Please, use the age old method – Tefilla and Bakosha. Not violence, not aggression, not public spectacles in Manhattan, a place steeped in tumaa, that no ben aliyah should hang out in.
Okay I hear the Satmar communities complaint.
But , Hello, why are you demonstrating in Manhattan and advertising that klal yosroel is pitted one against the other. We always learned in school that the worst possible thing a Yid can to make a chillul Hashem. I implore of the Satmar community to find a more tzniusdik way to express their opinions.
They should change the location to “within the mile” of New Square.
If this were a tefila rally out of Manahttan I would attend. Hashem can hear our tefilos even when they are not said next to the Israeli embassy.
As a protest near the Israeli embassy in Manhattan is not something I will attend. The media will definitely twist into being a general protest against Zionism and use it as ammunition for it’s propaganda war on behalf of Hamas. I will have no part in it
Well put.
Many of you have been misled, and been given the impression that Satmar and Litvishe Yeshiva world are on the same page re Medinas Yisroel. That is not so. Historical knowedge and perspective is very important here. Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l and the Satmar Rebbe campaigned against each other. When elections were scheduled in Eretz Yisroel, the Satmar Rebbe would campaign for people not to vote and Rav Aharon zt”l would go to Eretz Yisroel and campaign for people to vote. And the differences go beyond that as well.
The Litvishe Yeshiva velt does not take marching orders from Satmar and Hisachdus-CRC.