Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder, testified before the House of Representatives about anti-Semitism on college campuses
This particular volume of Kedushas Levi was published by Artscroll/Mesorah, and translated and elucidated by Rabbi Moishe Silk, a chassid who served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets under President Donald Trump. Now, as Rabbi Dr. Goldfeder came to Congress to defend His people, he was aided by the Berditchever, whose cause had become pertinent once again.
The sefer Ratz K’tzvi — Ish Milchamah is one of a multi-volume set of Ratz K’tzvi seforim, written by Rav Tzvi Ryzman shlita. The sefer is dedicated to elucidating the various halachos pertaining to war.
Recently, Rabbi Dovid Fuchs, a chaplain in the Netzach Yehudah batallion, showed the sefer to a group of soldiers in the unit. The topic he began to discuss with them was the idea of “milchemes mitzvah,” a war that has the status of a mitzvah. Suddenly, a siren went off, and the group of soldiers rushed to a bunker, where they huddled together, waiting for the danger to pass. Then they heard, “Mamshichim et hashiur shel haRav — we’re continuing the Rav’s shiur.”
And from the inside of a cement fortification, rockets flying overhead, the group leaned in to learn the halachos of a milchemes mitzvah.
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