Haredim protest against the conscription law (photo: police spokesmen)/social networks
Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Gottlieb, Rebbe of Kiryat Yaarim said today (Friday) in an interview with the "Koffman and Aryeh" program on 103FM that "150 thousand people will sit and study? This is something that is out of the question." He told about the phenomenon in which yeshiva students who are supposed to sit and study do not actually do so, which happens everywhere in ultra-Orthodox society.
"I have been involved in the wisdom of Kabbalah since the age of 14, 24/7, studying at all ends of the spectrum of Israeli society For decades now. The wisdom of Kabbalah sees the principles of Judaism in a completely different way," said Rabbi Gottlieb. "For example, the interpretation of the one word 'Torah', in the ultra-Orthodox community they interpret the word Torah as sitting by open books and studying, but in truth, the word Torah is a teaching language. That is, an instruction, how to connect with the Lord of the world."
"When a person goes under the stretcher with devotion, that is Torah too." Haredim protest against the conscription/official website, photo art Natan Miletsky
Rabbi Gottlieb said that as far as he is concerned, everyone should go to work except for the isolated, and this constitutes self-sacrifice. "From our point of view, even if a woman cuts vegetables in honor of Shabbat, it is Torah. Certainly and surely when a person goes under a stretcher with devotion, that is also Torah," he said. "We believe that a person should also go to work, except for lonely people, people who are able to sit and study all day."
"Society needs this because society needs rabbis, arbitrators, judges, teachers. Society derives benefit from their studies, but for an entire public of 150 thousand people to sit and study? That is out of the question," continued the Rebbe of Kiryat Yaarim. "I see Near my house, there is a sort of chain of shops and guys wander around there all hours of the day, they are supposed to sit and study - in reality they sit with Rogelach and cookies. It happens everywhere."
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