The Satmar Rebbe, Rav Aharon Teitelbaum, currently visiting Eretz Yisroel, intensified his ongoing battle against the draft law and against any dela being advanced in the Knesset. Speaking today to residents of Yerushalayim, the Rebbe delivered an impassioned address, warning that anyone who supports a compromise “hands over tens of thousands of Jewish souls to shmad with full intent.”
The address took place Tuesday afternoon during the Rebbe’s visit to the Kesav Sofer beis medrash in the Geulah neighborhood of Yerushalayim, where people welcomed him with singing and great emotion.
Inside the beis medrash—where Satmar Rebbes of earlier generations also spoke—the Rebbe addressed the crowd wrapped in a tallis, in accordance with local custom. His remarks focused on affirming the community’s steadfast position on religious matters and rejecting any concessions tied to the draft issue.
At the close of his speech, the Rebbe spoke directly about the draft legislation being shaped in the Knesset, issuing a harsh condemnation of all compromise proposals:
“The army is like ‘kol bo’eha lo yashuvun.’ One who enlists in the IDF emerges from there a complete goy, rachmana litzlan. This is a grave violation of religion. Anyone who supports any form of compromise is abandoning thousands of souls to shmad, and it is an injustice for which he will never be able to atone.”
The Rebbe also pushed back against those who advocate partial concessions in an effort to preserve as many bnei Torah as possible, arguing that the comparison to “ten li Yavneh vechachameha” is being twisted.
“Rav Yochanan ben Zakkai did not hand over the rest of the Jewish people to the Romans. He sought to save the sages of Yavneh without taking destructive action. But here—anyone who votes for such a law is actively delivering Jewish souls to shmad. He is raising a hand against the Torah of Moshe!”
He concluded with a fervent call for worldwide outcry: “We must cry out the cry of yahadus chareidis throughout Eretz Yisroel—and throughout the Diaspora as well! May the Ribbono shel Olam have mercy on His people and remove the rule of wickedness from the land. Then the decree will be nullified, and we will merit the arrival of the Goel Tzedek speedily in our days—Amen!”
As reported earlier, during the reception at the Badatz office of the Eida HaChareidis, the Rebbe said he had traveled from the United States specifically to stand with those “waging Hashem’s battles” against what he described as the terrible decree facing the Torah community in Eretz Yisroel.
{Matzav.com}
A goy?! Really?! Even an ainikle Chaim Meisels?!
IM NOT SURE ABOUT “EINEKEL”, BUT YOU R FOR SURE A “………”
It’s an insult to the many who have been killed and injured.
King David would not approve of this speech.
.. and an insult to the many frum soldiers who are currently enrolled in the IDF and protecting EY as the Rebbe is in EY living it up with all the perks…
He’s entitled to his shita but not to tell outright lies.
He needs to ask mechila from the tens of thousands of deeply religious soldiers many of whom grab every free minute to learn Torah. And his words are daggers in the hearts of widows who know that their fallen husbands had as much Yiras Shamayim as he does !
His claim is sheker and obscene.
Well said.
I hope the Rebbe Shlita is not being neheneh from the Zionist electric company, gas company, water company, gasoline stations, Street crossing signs, traffic lights, etc etc…while he travels around the country
as the badchan said in Chabad every goy is a Yid and by Satmar every Yid is a goy
NEEDS CLARIFICATION. We should be careful about making final judgements from News reports.
Did Rav Aharon compare enlisted to Minim / Mordim ( apostates) that have the Halachic Issurim of BOTH Yahudi and Non Yahudi? ( Like wine and minyan)
NOT that I agree ( I do not) to me it seems a Guzma ( exageration) and a misunderstanding of Halacha. HOWEVER if he meant Minim /Mosrim / Mordim / Apikorsim it could understood as one application of Halacha in our time. Just because one complies does not mean the agree with as state put over us because of OUR SINS. Does one paying the taxes imposed become an apostate? Does one in a state issued uniform who learns a little everyday become an apostate in our eyes automatically?
What about VOTING…very few have not voted ( participated WILLINGLY)?
this is a psak by the way binding on all frum
I am not Frum, and Not religious.
All I do is what the Torah asks of me.
I’m not well but I’m not sick
Call me when he says something good about our beloved Holy Land.
He is wrong. He doesn’t become a goy, he becomes worse than a goy.
The Satmar rebbe is on the button. He knows how corrupt and anti Jewish this army is and being led by bareheaded pork eaters.
And so? Lets say its led by who you claim it is.
Does that mean that one who joins is like that?
Are we all the same as the people who are in charge of us, whether bosses, or similar?
I do know this. I am not speaking about about the Rabbi from Satmar, because he is a Holy man, a talmid Chacham, regardless if i believe he made a mistake, but to you i can ask.
Does it not say in Avos “אוהב את הבריאות ונקרבן לתורה”? That is a direct command from the Torah. “Hillel says, be like the students of Aharon, Love the created, and [thus] draw them close to Torah”.
I think you can probably reword your comment better
NO NO NO! On the contrary! Any and every individual that joins the IDF is a complete Tzaddik, as they are giving up their lives B’Mesiras Nefesh to defend this Holy Land AND its people. If ch”v r”l l”a we wouldn’t have this army of angles in green, you wouldn’t be able to stand anywhere in this land. The GOYIM the monsters are Hamas, Palestinians, the Houtis, Iran etc. They openly admit to ch”v want to conquer our Holy Land -Eretz Yisroel and r”l rid the world of Jews lo aleinu So watch what you say and don’t be a כפוי טוב – instead praise the IDF and thank them from the bottom of your heart for their bravery and courage and foremost, giving up their lives for you and me!
Israel has numerous enemies surrounding Israel.
Nobody should get their feathers ruffled
This is how the Ingrisher Chasidim speak
please remove any critical comments of Daas Torah, you can choose to ignore Daas Torah but this is the emes. The IDF make frum into freir and from frei into akum. The Zionists are a kitrug on us
@ Anon
“this is a psak by the way binding on all frum”
And all the Gedolim who disagree with him don’t count, right?
You are an idiot
does anyone know what’s in the giant tallis bag?
Just as the president of America has a black suitcase carried with him which contains nuclear secret keys so too the Satmar rebbe has secret codes in spiritual levels.
Heilig
You got me rolling.