HaGaon HaRav Moshe Tzadka strongly condemned the draft decree, saying that if IDF soldiers understood the koach of Torah, they would enter yeshivos and plead with yeshiva bochurim to continue learning.

Speaking at a Siyum HaShas held at Yeshivas Lev Eliyahu in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, HaRav Tzadka said, “They should make a law that anyone who doesn’t come to the yeshivos should go to prison. If we want to be saved from our enemies, we need to learn Torah. The fools today say, ‘Whoever is in yeshivah — prison.’ Fools! It should be exactly the opposite. They should make a law that everyone has to go to the yeshivos. Everyone.”

“We are living in the period of Chevlei Moshiach, and the only way to be saved from Chevlei Moshiach is through learning Torah, as they are doing here at Yeshivas Lev Eliyahu, completing Shas. They should be saying, ‘Rabbosai, in light of the situation, everyone should go to the yeshivos. No one should be out in the streets.’”

HaGaon HaRav Tzadka continued: “If the soldiers knew what saves them, if they understood the koach of Torah, they would walk into the yeshivos in the middle of seder and plead with the bochurim: ‘Have mercy on us, have mercy. Don’t stop learning for even a moment.’ That is what they should be doing.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)