Hagaon Rav Dov Landau, rosh yeshiva of Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, conveyed a message to roshei yeshiva and others about the vital role of limud haTorah in safeguarding Klal Yisroel.
In a letter shared in the Israeli Yated, Rav Landau emphasized that, “Only because of the Torah learning have the Arabs not united to destroy its inhabitants, G-d forbid.”
He expressed concern that any efforts to diminish Torah study would place all of Klal Yisroel in jeopardy, warning, “Those who wish to diminish Torah are endangering all of Klal Yisroel.”
He further quoted the posuk, “‘And let the land not vomit you out for having defiled it’ (Vayikra 18:28),” reflecting on how Eretz Yisroel has not rejected its people despite the many grave challenges it has faced over the years. Rav Landau attributed the continued protection of the land to the merit of Torah study, noting, “This special medicine is that of Torah learning, and this is the medicine that they wish to lose.”
Earlier this year, Rav Landau wrote another letter published in the Israeli Yated, urging yeshiva students to refrain from appearing for military call-ups, and “or even respond to the initial draft order.” In the letter, he explained, “We do not have the ability to rely on agreements and understandings with the military’s leaders, since their hands are tied with cables of iron by the judges, and the entire response to the decrees of the echelon is simply to cave to their war against Hashem and His Torah.”
Rav Landau also lamented the current situation, stating, “Now the situation is that the echelons have announced war against the Torah world, and they are the ones who opened a front and came to change the order which existed all through the years, and ordered the army to begin a process of actual enlistment of yeshiva students.”
{Matzav.com Israel}
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Very true. Many deny this fact, but it’s the emes.
If people only knew how much warning military and security authorities had prior to the Oct. 7th Horror — and those secular Leftists in charge refused to prevent it, not months before it occurred and not hours before it occurred — they’d realize how useless it is to whole-heartedly rely on the military and security.
We really need an increase in enthusiastic limud Torah.
If we learn Torah for the one and only reason that Hashem wants us to learn, if that is our reason why we are learning Torah, then that Torah will definitely protect us.