I’m not here to take sides regarding the actual protest. I do think it was very commendable that the site Matzav.com did not let visitors blurb their disrespectful comments about some great manhigei Yisroel and true gedolim that had differing opinions regarding if a public protest was the way to go in connection to the draft of bochurim in Eretz Yisroel.
There was something that did pop out to me in connection to some of these protests in Manhattan, that raised an interesting question.
The organizers of the protest were mainly members of the Satmar Chassidim. One of their biggest issues with Chabad’s involvement with the secular society – is the negative effect this might have on their ruchnius. Yet to go to Manhattan to make a protest IS ok. I don’t get the difference.
The argument that they are protesting the darkness so it therefore won’t affect them is the same argument of those in their Mitzvah TANKS, there to FIGHT the darkness with love.
The organizers of the protest were mainly members of the Satmar Chassidim. One of their biggest issues with Chabad’s involvement with the secular society – is the negative effect this might have on their ruchnius. Yet to go to Manhattan to make a protest IS ok. I don’t get the difference.
The argument that they are protesting the darkness so it therefore won’t affect them is the same argument of those in their Mitzvah TANKS, there to FIGHT the darkness with love.
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