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YYA> The hishtadlus just doesn’t work. At best all it does is buy some more time

I don’t know where these attitudes come from. Is it what Zionists call “galut mentality” – when we had no agency in how goyim decided to deal with us?
Tanach and Gemorah are full of examples of people doing what they can do – and doing it in an erliche way … I understand this is all said and done in defence of Torah, but you can’t defend Torah by diverting our tradition into some cultish behavior. There is no contradiction between developing Iron dome and being a Torah Yid, whatever the history of israeli politics was in last 80 years.