Reply To: IDF’s New Haredi Division

Once full-scale war broke out after the State of Israel
declared its existence on May 14, 1948 [CE] Reb Shraga Feivel’s
[Mendlowitz] thoughts were never far from Eretz Yisrael.

A group of students saw him outside the Mesivta building
one day, talking excitedly with Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr and
gesticulating rapidly with the newspaper held in his hand.

“If I were your age,” he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] told the students,
“I would take a gun and go to Eretz Yisrael.”

SOURCE: “Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America” (chapter 26, page 338)
by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001 CE,
based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965