Following the Supreme Court’s ruling this week that stipulated that the military authorities must immediately issue draft orders to yeshiva students obligated to enlist, as well as cease funding for yeshivas, Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman, the senior member of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah of Degel HaTorah and rosh yeshivas Rashbi, released a sharp and piercing letter. In it, he asserts that laws contradicting the Torah’s laws are null and void.
Rav Bergman begins his letter with a quote: “Indeed, Your enemies roar and those who hate You have lifted their heads.” To our brothers, the people of Yisroel, Torah students who are dedicated to the word of Hashem:
“It is clear and simple that we are obligated solely to the laws of the Torah. Any law that contradicts the laws of the Torah is null and void, like dust of the earth. Rabbeinu Hagadol, my father-in-law, Maran Harav Shach zt”l, already taught that the decree of drafting yeshiva students is a decree of destruction against the holy Torah, and we must oppose it with all our might, with self-sacrifice, with all our soul and all our resources.
“Signed with pain and sorrow for the sake of upholding the Torah in Eretz Yisroel.”
Minutes after the Supreme Court ruling, when family members informed him, Rav Bergman responded firmly: “It does not concern us, whether they voted or did not vote… We have the holy Torah, we have our yeshivas, they said… they voted… what do we have to discuss about this at all?”
{Matzav.com Israel}
