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Calls for greater unity between the Chareidi and national religious popu­ lations, however, are more frequently heard in chutz la'Aretz than in Bretz Yisroel, where they tend to be viewed as hopeless utopianism. There are, of course, points of con­ parties; nor did it occur to anyone that In June, for example, Rabbi Avichai tact between the National Religious they might. Ronsky, the Chief Rabbi of the Israel and Chareidi worlds Many families Points of tension between the two Defense Forces, accompanied troops on can clain1 cousins and even siblings worlds are abuudant. More than twenty a Shabbos mission in Gaza. In response in both worlds. During the Simchas years ago) the national re1igious educa­ to criticism of his actions (son1e of Beis Hasha' eva celebrations in To Idos tional system purged Chareidi teachers. it from within the national religious Aharon and at the Mosad HaRav Kook Once, the Chief Rabbinate was viewed world itself), Rabbi Ronsky replied book fare, kippot serugot and black hats as the almost exclusive province of the with an analogy. He likened himself to 1ningle easily. There are pron1inent national religious world. Today, it is the kohein meshuach milchama, who figures in the Chareidi world who have more frequently (and exaggeratedly) accompanied Jewish troops into battle. large followings in the national religious described as Chareidi-controlled. He did not defend his presence in terms com1nunity, and even one who regularly of pikuach nefesh - IDF missions, after gives shiurim in a hesder yeshiva. all, are routinely conducted without the Yet, for the most part, the two reli­ THE PIVOTAL POINT: presence of a rabbi - but solely in terms gious co1n1nunities remain quite dis­ of his ability to lift the spirits of the THE STATE tinct. The demonstrations that attract troops so that they would fight better. Chareidim generally do not attract Rabbi Ronsky's ready analogy of the national religious, and vice versa. he fundamental division between the IDF to the armies ofYehoshua and Recent discussions about unifying the the two worlds remains theologi­ David Hamelech and himself to the right-wing religious bloc before the next T cal, and focuses on the question: kohein meshuach milchama reflects a elections did not include the Chareidi What is the significance of the creation traditional national religious cast of of the State oflsrael? Is it reishit tzmichat mind, \vhich tends to view the n1odern geulateinu - the first flowering of the State of Israel as a renewed Jewish king­ RABBI ROSENl~LUM, WHO LIVES JN JERUSALEM, lS A CONTRIBt ~TING EO!TOn TO T11E ]EWISll 0BSEUVER. Redemption- or theologically indeter­ dom. It is safe to say that the analogy HE JS ALSO DmECTOR OF THE l.'>RAEU DlVISJON OF minate? The different answers to that between the chief rabbi of the IDF and AM ECHAD, THE AG!!DATH ISRAEL·lNSPmED EDUCA­ question, it turns out, have profound the kohein meshuach milchama is not TIONAi. OUTfU·:ACH EFFORT AND MEDI;\ RESOURCE. iinplications even for the interpretation one that would have occurred to any of the most basic mitzvos. Chareidi poseik. _J THE JEWlSH OBSERVER THE CONVERSION (SSUE a requi~e111e11t fzrcg?Ye~~iQ!J,aud that Already in 1984, Rabbi Shlomo n·. no a~ea,. ~?'Y~ver, has tJ::~ c~asi;i a .§i!Jcere ~1sfre }C!.attach. ??~self. t? Zalman Auerbach, RabbiYaakov Yisroel .between tl!e9al~chi?.~PPr?aches?f the Jemsh people fa· ~ufficie?t' 1'!1.11s, KaJ1ievsky, R.abbi Elazar Mena chem Man I the pa ti?pal ~~ligio~~ aJ1~pharei\li ~e ~~)Teloped•f~.t;'.'!Jqy11" ~Qncept ?f a Schach, and. t;"';>:i>, Rabbi Yosef Shalom wotl<lsbeep more evident, ov~~a period geir(lsthat is valfd o'.'.lysz lQng ~stheger Elyashiv issued il pubicletter stating that of decades, thani that of conversiop. continuestoliveiulsrael.f!e had this kaballa~ al mitzvos is· an indispensable Thereis a lcmg tradition in the natiop.al qualific~tion.~tterr on his sertific~tes requireinent of .geirus, and that. ~atei religious world of factoring ideologi­ of conversion.
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