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Lithuanian Rabbi Urges Daily Half-Hour of Silence Amid Funding and Draft Crisis
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First reported by Kikar HaShabbat · Jun 21, 2026
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Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch urged tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox scholars to observe a daily half-hour “fast of speech” until after the Tishrei holidays. He tied the appeal to the fight over conscription, yeshiva funding, and rulings by Gali Baharav-Miara and the Supreme Court, as he flew to the US for emergency fundraising.
- 01Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch issued an urgent letter to yeshiva students and kollel scholars.
- 02He asked for a daily 30-minute “fast of speech” until after the Tishrei holidays.
- 03Hirsch linked the move to the fight over conscription and yeshiva funding.
- 04He criticized Gali Baharav-Miara and Supreme Court justices.
- 05The appeal came as he departed for emergency fundraising in the United States.
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