Reply To: New book – “HaChareidim V’Haaretz”

AAQ – But I wonder whether this sociological process is part of what was happening everywhere in the early 20th century.

Let’s say we have an isolated Moshav in the Galil 100 years ago with 30 families and 100 kids in need of education, all of them fully Chareidi, fathers with shtreimlach, mothers with tichels, etc. They look for a suitable solution for their kids Chinuch. The Yaka/Kiach/Pekidim whatever sends them some nice fellow wearing a Yarmulka and ostensibly Orthodox to open a school. He brings over some ostensibly religious men and women to serve as teachers. After a few months, the teachers start fudging their own supposed Mitzvah observance, and the kids start to do the same, until the whole thing turns out to have been a carefully planned charade to destroy the neshamos of the kids. Any attempts to replace the teachers fall on deaf ears. If the parents protest too loudly, the Pekidim threaten to cut off the stipend money sent to support the settlers… This actually happened in real life. I know personally the Chiloni grandchildren of some kids like that. What does this have to do with “sociological processes”?! This is straight ???? ????? plain and simple, with no ????? ???? whatsoever. Nor is there any chiyuv, or even any hetter, to be ???? ???? on such people. ?? ???? ??? ???? ??? ????? ??? ????. Does this help you understand the Chareidi attitude towards Zionism and the state?