Rav Chaim Shmulevits RY Mir writes that killed idf soldiers in the war, have the status of someone who sacrificed himself for the whole community and that ein kol berya yachol la’amod bemechitsatam ba olam haba.
Now do we have hakarat hatov to that individual who sacrificed himself for the community. Think so …
So Rav Chaim S , who R Chaim Ozer the gadol hador stood for him when RCS was in his twenties, explaining that he has to stand up when the vilna library walks in, says this .
Somejew claims that this is kfira. RCS obviously says its not.
Who will we take on their word ?
RCS or somejew ?
Somejew claims satmar rebbi and the torah support him. All the others who argue, are per force
a] not gdolim or
b] never said it .
Got some news for somejew – Satmar rav also never meant this literally. He deep down also agreed that we should have hakarat hatov.
Satmar rav could not / did not want to, tolerate hakarat hatov to soldiers , because he feared the simple hamon am would not be able to differentiate between hakarat hatov and blind following of the terrible Z movement. [not being sarcastic here]
So thats why SR said LEMIGDAR MILSEH – no hakarat hatov .
But me’ikar hadin there is makom for hakrat htov to those indivuduals who put their life on the line for the klal.
But since Somejew accepts every word his rebbi uttered as literal, he cannot succeed to see past his own nose.
Feel bad for him.
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