"More and more I think leadership of the Haredi World has realized that it's counterproductive for them to have wholesale exemption from the Army: Jewish Law never ever suggested that. Much the opposite. Jewish Law has exemptions, but the Gemara in Sotah 44 says very clearly that if it's an 'Obligatory War' ~ A War In Self-Defense, which is all of our wars in Israel ~ everyone must go: even a Groom from the Marriage Canopy, even a Bride from her Bridal Chamber. There is no room for exemption for Torah students" (Rabbi Shlomo Riskin)
"What Moses said, then, to B'nei Gad and B'nei Reuven is just as true to the Haredi World today. It cannot be that your brethren will go out to do battle and you will sit at home in peace and security, while they fight for you. There are those who say that studying Torah is the best protection, but that's false to all of Jewish Theology throughout the ages. We never rely on Miracles, where human life is concerned. We can only rely [against those who come to destroy us] on our doing battle for ourselves. Please, G-d, may the time soon come when no one has to go out to battle, but when some of us have to go, all of us outta go" {Rabbi Shlomo Riskin}
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