Watch: Rav Hershel Schachter Calls Atzeres Tefillah “Utterly Ridiculous,” Says “Our Hashkafah Is More Normal”
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[Video below.] A newly surfaced video of Rav Hershel Schachter, rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS) of Yeshiva University and a leading posek for the Orthodox Union, features comments from him regarding the recent atzeres tefillah in Eretz Yisroel protesting the drafting of yeshiva bochurim into the army.
In the video, Rav Schachter dismissed the large public gathering—attended by leading gedolei Torah and hundreds of thousands of people—as “utterly ridiculous.”
“They just had in Eretz Yisrael, they had this whole yom atzeret,” he said. “I think it was utterly ridiculous. The country is at war and no one wants to go to the army? I think the whole thing was ridiculous. I don’t think anybody from YU would ever participate in such an atzeret.”
Rav Schachter continued, “They’re big talmidei chachamim, but they exaggerate so much that nothing else counts by them. Here we’re more reasonable. Torah is important, and the war is important, and the army, everything is important, everything is. You shouldn’t exaggerate [and say] everything just depends on Torah.”
“The Jewish people has to have an army. If everyone’s gonna sit and learn, the enemy is gonna kill all of us,” he said. “You have to have an army, you have to have other things. So I think our hashkafah is more normal, more reasonable.”
Concluding his remarks, Rav Schachter added, “We have to present it to the public. They shouldn’t think anyone who learns Torah is a meshuggener. Everything is exaggerated.”
WATCH:
https://vimeo.com/1138106071/20e046da29?fl=pl&fe=vl
{Matzav.com}
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