Roshei yeshivah from across the spectrum came together as one, even if with divided hearts
It was a spectacle the likes of which had not been seen since the days of the Knessiah Gedolah of Agudas Yisrael, before the split in 1989. Litvaks, Sephardim, and chassidim — roshei yeshivah from across the spectrum — came together as one, even if with divided hearts.
The location was unusual in every way: the plaza outside the military prison at Beit Lid, in the hottest week of the year, during bein hazmanim — a time when the roshei yeshivah usually devote attention to their families and rest from the burdens of the zeman.
But these are not normal days, and in this bein hazmanim, the mashgichim’s mussar shmuessen about the feeling of “dread” that must take hold even before Elul hardly need reinforcement. After all, yeshivah students, without exception, received draft orders toward the end of the zeman, and thousands are already classified as deserters. Anxiety has become an existential fact.
Dozens of roshei yeshivah, under the leadership of the great rabbanim, who came to the rally outside the detention center in the oppressive heat, found themselves in an unfamiliar situation.
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