The vital importance of Numbers 32
A writer to the Jerusalem Post brings up a verse in the Torah the Satmar community members in NYC would do well to remember:
The challenging retort of Moses to the tribes of Reuben and Gad in regard to their request to settle on the east of the Jordan while the remaining tribes were to be engaged in the battles necessitated by their entrance into the promised land, should serve as a most appropriate rejoinder to those haredim in New York who were protesting against Israel’s drafting of yeshiva students for military service (“Thousands of haredim in lower Manhattan protest IDF draft,” June 11).This is exactly what the Satmar astoundingly manage to obscure in their isolationist beliefs.
“Shall your brothers go out to war while you sit here?” (Numbers 32) Is there a need for any more to be said?
Labels: haredi corruption, Israel, Judaism, military, New York, United States
