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Why Haredim want no part of the military (warning immodest pictures)

 














And I'm not showing the photos of "IDF Babes" in bikinis, like this with the skin covered up by me.




The Prohibition Against Impure Thoughts:

“Scripture (Ecclesiastes 12,14) teaches us that God judges every action according to the person's hidden feelings. If a man inadvertently happens to see a beautiful woman and allows himself even a momentary impure thought while looking at her, he should not think that he did not commit a transgression because he had not gone out on purpose to be attracted by her charm. The statement that God judges man according to his hidden feelings applies in such cases also. Even pleasure at the sight of an unexpected sensual stimulus is a transgression. We should regard as a punishment the mere fact that we were given occasion for impurity without our having gone out to look for it. On the other hand, one who gets an unexpected opportunity to perform a mitzvah should rejoice and give thanks to God Who has given him this unsought opportunity to do good.” Sefer Chasidim, 177, (12th century) as translated in the monthly journal Jeshurun, 19th century Frankfurt, Germany. Hirsch, Collected Writings, (Volume VIII), p. 190. 






Prohibition of women carrying guns or wearing men's clothes

"A man’s implement shall not be on a woman, nor may a man wear a woman’s garment because whoever does these is an abomination to the Lord, your God." (Devarim 22:5.)

לאֹּ־יִֹֽהְיֵֶּׁ֤ה כְלִי־גֶָׁ֨בֶׁרֹ֙ עַל־אִשָָׁ֔ה  Targum Unkelos translates the term כְלִי־גֶָׁ֨בֶׁר as weapon. לָא יְהֵי תִקוּן זֵין דִגְבַר עַל אִתְתָא means נֶׁשֶׁק or weapon. A man’s weapon should not be on a woman.


Our safety is dependent on obeying the mitzvos not on having an army

"And it will be, if you will diligently obey My commandments which I enjoin upon you this day, to love the Lord, your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, I will give rain for your land at the proper time, the early rain and the late rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine and your oil." (Devarim 11:13-14)

But if we rebel, then we will be cast off of the land.

"Take care lest your heart be lured away, and you turn astray and worship alien gods and bow down to them. For then the Lord’s wrath will flare up against you, and He will close the heavens so that there will be no rain and the earth will not yield its produce, and you will swiftly perish from the good land which the Lord gives you." (Devarim 11:16-17)


So is the Haredi aversion to army 'service' because they are bums and parasites or because army culture is counter to the Jewish religion?


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