You had me until I went to the link and found no such article. But, many of these things have actually been done in the past, and the opposition to responsibility is so great, that I thought it might be credible....keep up the good work
You had me fooled for a bit (date notwithstanding), because some of these things have been done in the past - many decades ago when I got my Tzav Rishon, the Lishkat Hagiyus had several young Haredi men clearly faking mental illness (at least to me it looked obvious that they were faking).
To avoid the Tzar's army, it was not unheard of for young men (really children) to cut off their trigger finger or shoot themselves in the foot (and I guess according to some opinions IDF is as bad as the Tzar's army)
It was only when you got to gender changing and converting to Islam that it looked farfetched, but in the Haredi world today, just about anything is possible,.
The closest humorous thing I found was this, at the end of the article they attempt to find the silver lining in all this:
בחורי ישיבה אשר שוחחו עם 'כיכר השבת' אומרים: "לבינתיים, למרות הפחד מהורדת התקציבים, בסה"כ נמנע ביטול תורה של אלפי לומדי תורה שנאלצו כל כמה חודשים לבזבז סדר א' שלם על התייצבות בלשכת הגיוס".
Translation by ChatGPT4 (much better than Google translate):
"Yeshiva students who spoke with 'Kikar HaShabbat' say: "For now, despite the fear of budget cuts, the cancellation of Torah study for thousands of Torah scholars, who were forced every few months to waste a whole first seder on appearing at the recruitment office, has overall been avoided."
You had me until I went to the link and found no such article. But, many of these things have actually been done in the past, and the opposition to responsibility is so great, that I thought it might be credible....keep up the good work
You had me fooled for a bit (date notwithstanding), because some of these things have been done in the past - many decades ago when I got my Tzav Rishon, the Lishkat Hagiyus had several young Haredi men clearly faking mental illness (at least to me it looked obvious that they were faking).
To avoid the Tzar's army, it was not unheard of for young men (really children) to cut off their trigger finger or shoot themselves in the foot (and I guess according to some opinions IDF is as bad as the Tzar's army)
It was only when you got to gender changing and converting to Islam that it looked farfetched, but in the Haredi world today, just about anything is possible,.
Any way, a merry April First to all readers.
The closest humorous thing I found was this, at the end of the article they attempt to find the silver lining in all this:
בחורי ישיבה אשר שוחחו עם 'כיכר השבת' אומרים: "לבינתיים, למרות הפחד מהורדת התקציבים, בסה"כ נמנע ביטול תורה של אלפי לומדי תורה שנאלצו כל כמה חודשים לבזבז סדר א' שלם על התייצבות בלשכת הגיוס".
https://www.kikar.co.il/yeshiva-world/sb8vaj
Translation by ChatGPT4 (much better than Google translate):
"Yeshiva students who spoke with 'Kikar HaShabbat' say: "For now, despite the fear of budget cuts, the cancellation of Torah study for thousands of Torah scholars, who were forced every few months to waste a whole first seder on appearing at the recruitment office, has overall been avoided."
You had me until gender changing
How sweet. An April fools article at the expense of people you disagree with. How totally unexpected from you. This is a truly vile article.
Please tell me this is an April Fool's article. Please!
Yes let’s all neglect a mitzwah de’oraita to help conquer the land to sit in a cave and hide
The world we live in, every day is April Fools
Don't give em any ideas 😀
well done!
Sorry but really not appropriate in these difficult times of high tension to run a joke like this.
🤦 I fell for it.
"There is an additional approach to be employed, which may seem strange to some"
Is that a deliberate double liner?
I was expecting something about animals like you usually do.
Still quite funny.
🤣