Dear Matzav Inbox,
Someone has to finally say aloud what too many are whispering in private: the bizayon haTorah unfolding in our midst is intolerable, and the silence around it is even worse.
And so, I really hope you’ll print my letter, because someone has to say something!
Over these past weeks, the kooks and agitators have crawled out from their corners to stage their so-called “protests” against the gedolei hador themselves, whether it is Rav Dov Landau or, specifically this week, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch during his visit to the United States.
And what do we hear in response? Nothing. Deafening, humiliating silence.
Where is the machaah? Where is the voice of a rosh yeshiva, of a rov, of anyone in leadership, rising publicly to defend kavod haTorah? How is it that this keeps happening, again and again, and not one person thundering a single word against it?
Let us be clear: These individuals are being mevazeh Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch because of their own amateur commentary on the Draft Law. They’ve crowned themselves experts, as if the gedolim who have borne the weight of Klal Yisroel somehow “don’t get it.”
Do these people truly believe that Rav Dov Landau and Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch are unaware of the law, the negotiations, the consequences, the subtleties?
These Torah giants know the Draft Law better than any pundit, blogger, WhatsApp warrior, or bullhorn-wielding kanna’i or demonstrator. They understand every ramification — legal, political, practical, and spiritual — with a depth that protestors and kannaim hotlines featuring hotheads and misguided ignoramuses cannot even begin to fathom.
And more than that, they understand the way gedolim have always navigated moments like this, with responsibility, strategy, and the foresight that comes only from Torah leadership.
They know how to maneuver.
They know how to negotiate.
They know how to delay when delay is necessary — how to “kick the can down the road” if that is what preserves the Olam Hayeshivos today so that Klal Yisroel can thrive tomorrow.
And let’s spell out what every honest person knows: They do not intend for a single ben yeshiva to end up in the army. Not one. They are safeguarding our yeshivos with every fiber of their being.
That’s what makes them gedolim. That’s what makes them the leaders of our generation. And yet these protestors — these noisy, self-appointed critics — actually imagine they know better. Afra L’pumayhu.
We’ve seen this script before. These are the very same people who, not so long ago, hurled venom at Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt”l and Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman zt”l, accusing them of the vilest things. The invectives they screamed back then cannot be repeated in a respectable publication.
The pattern is identical: Delegitimize the gedolim, weaponize ignorance, and pretend it’s all “for the sake of Klal Yisroel.”
They did it to Rav Chaim. They did it to Rav Aharon Leib. And now they are doing it to Rav Dov and Rav Moshe Hillel.
But the protestors themselves are not the only guilty parties. No. The rot spreads further. The enablers are the ones who give them cover, those who refuse to call them out, who remain silent while kavod haTorah is trampled, who, especially in America, watch the questioning of the gedolei hador metastasize across our communities and shrug it off or even legitimatize it.
Only when the chaos spirals out of control — only when the monster they themselves allowed to grow explodes out of control — do they suddenly rouse themselves with indignance. By then, of course, it’s too late. By then, the damage is done. And we are left with a daily churban of mobs of loudmouthed goons degrading the gedolei hador without consequence.
Enough.
Enough silence. Enough enabling. Enough pretending that this is normal or tolerable. We must call this what it is: an assault on kavod haTorah, a brazenness that should make every member of Klal Yisroel tremble.
If we still have the dignity to care, if we still believe in the sanctity of Torah leadership, then the time has come to draw a clear line and say with absolute clarity: this behavior is poison and it must end now.
If no one else will speak up, then let this letter be the beginning.
Sincerely,
A deeply pained member of Klal Yisroel
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