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Shim's avatar

Why not write an article to the hundreds of thousands of secular Irsaelis on how they should share the burden of Torah?

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"How do you solve the problem..." - YOU don't. You're like some Russian czar thinking he's going to fix "the Jewish problem." The "problem" exists only in the mind of the anti-semite. If Charedi society want to make certain changes it will happen organically, on its own terms. All the Neeman Commissions of the past 50 years have accomplished nothing. But when the community wanted to do it voluntarily - suddenly we see thousands of enlistments, and who knows how many hundreds or thousands more in the process.

Honestly, its good that extremely foolish comments like yours are just written in a museum director's english blog, where they're never seen by actual Charedim. (That goes double for the brilliance in the previous post, like "Charedim are incapable of grasping responsibilities on a large scale" or "Charedim can't understand that large events require planning.") (Imagine if we replaced the word "Charedim" with "Jews"). If such stupidity was ever mouthed by someone who potentially mattered, like Lieberman, it might enrage the society and cause them to stop the incremental changes they've already made.

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