SOLDIERS OF IDF VS ARAB TERRORISTS

SOLDIERS OF IDF VS ARAB TERRORISTS

Friday, July 20, 2012

The ascetic who controlled the lives of the haredim


From his modest apartment, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv ran the lives of the Lithuanian haredim and made important political decisions • A man of contradictions, he ruled out army service but was sensitive to soldiers • He made few public statements, but even rabbis who did not belong to his community obeyed him • Followers describe him as “the generation’s leader,” but only days after his death, the war over the succession has begun.
Yehuda Schlezinger

Pious and uncompromising. The late Rabbi Elyashiv. 
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