Top Rabbi Sends Letter to Jailed Yeshiva Student Over Draft Evasion
Translated & summarized from Arutz Sheva by baba
Rabbi Avraham Salim, head of the Maor HaTorah yeshiva, sent a letter to yeshiva student Eliyahu Dehda, who is jailed for refusing IDF conscription. The letter criticized the Israeli government and offered spiritual comfort, assuring Dehda that the Divine Presence was with him. Rabbi Yehuda Cohen also expressed support, and more rabbis are expected to join the protest against yeshiva student arrests.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- Rabbi Avraham Salim wrote to yeshiva student Eliyahu Dehda, imprisoned for draft evasion.
- The letter criticized the Israeli government for jailing the student.
- Rabbi Salim assured Dehda of divine presence and solidarity from the Torah world.
- Rabbi Yehuda Cohen also signed the letter of support.
- The action protests a wave of arrests of yeshiva students over conscription.
Rabbi Avraham Salim, the head of the Maor HaTorah yeshiva, has sent a letter of encouragement to Eliyahu Dehda, a yeshiva student imprisoned for failing to report for IDF conscription. In the letter, Rabbi Salim criticized the Israeli government, stating that Dehda was jailed by the government "for being a yeshiva student whose Torah is his occupation." He assured the student that "the Divine Presence is with you and watching over you" and that he was imprisoned for the sake of Torah study. Rabbi Salim also conveyed a message of solidarity from the wider Torah world, promising that "all the Torah world stands with you with pride" and praying for his imminent release. Rabbi Yehuda Cohen, a member of the Council of Torah Sages and head of the Yakiri Yerushalayim yeshiva, added his signature and full support to the letter. Sources close to the rabbis anticipate that additional prominent rabbis and heads of yeshivas will join this call in the coming days to protest the wave of arrests of yeshiva students, amid ongoing political and social tensions surrounding the conscription of yeshiva students.
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