In a moving encounter Tuesday evening, Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva Rav Dov Landau warmly received Ariel Rosenzweig, a yeshiva bochur who was arrested last week during the shivah for his late father and later released.
The Rosh Yeshiva bentched him, saying, “Learn Torah and pay no attention to these wicked people who want to drag you into that terrible place — the army.”
He also offered words of nechamah for the loss of his father and blessed him that he should receive a full exemption from military service.
Ariel, a talmid at Yeshivas Neve Eretz, was arrested by the military police in the middle of shivah at his home in Ramat Gan. His father had passed away only days earlier. Despite the pleas and tears of his grieving family and the newly widowed mother, the bochur was taken from the house and imprisoned.
Following intense public outcry and political pressure, Ariel was eventually released from detention.
{Matzav.com}
