The path to ultimate victory for all of Klal Yisrael lies in our redoubling our efforts in limud Torah
Last week, Israel’s High Court issued a ruling that the government must begin drafting yeshivah students into the IDF because there is no legal framework to continue granting them exemptions from army service.
How should we, as chareidi Jews, relate to this ruling?
Israel’s High Court is a self-appointed body that doesn’t have any precedent in the Western democratic world. The premise of the American court system is that there is a legal foundation, the Constitution, that underpins and serves as a reference point and guidepost for every new legal development. Israel’s High Court justices, in contrast, have no constitution to answer to. Their measuring stick is “reasonability,” and they are the self-appointed arbiters of what “reasonability” includes.
They are obviously biased against traditional Jewish values — at the very least, certainly against our emunah in the Yud-Gimmel Ikarim and in the sanctity of Torah and the absolute truth of Torah. All that is nonexistent in their eyes, Rachmana litzlan. For us, as chareidi Jews whose every action is determined by Torah, the High Court ruling should have zero meaning.
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