What Hagaon Harav Shach Foresaw Years Ago: “Every Father Will Need To Fight For His Child”

 

HaGaon HaRav Meir Tzvi Bergman speaks on the yahrzeit on his father-in-law, HaGaon HaRav Shach, Z'tl. (Shuki Lehrer; Beni Birk, Israel Press and Photo Agency)

This past Erev Shabbos was the 24th yahrzeit of HaGaon HaRav Elazer Menachem Man Shach, z’tl.

On the day of the yahrzeit, HaGaon HaRav Meir Tzvi Bergman, HaRav Shach’s son-in-law, visited his kever and spoke words of chizzuk at his yeshivah, Yeshivas Rashbi in Bnei Brak.

At the kever, HaRav Bergman addressed the situation in the Olam HaTorah, saying, “It must be stated here that for a long time already, the bnei yeshivos hakedoshos have been persecuted. Already many years ago, I heard from Rav Shach that such an era will come—when every father would have to protect his children himself, that chas v’shalom they be taken into the army, and that one must be prepared to sacrifice oneself for this.”

“Woe unto us that this has befallen us in our days, and we have no one to rely on. Therefore, we ask here from Rabbeinu HaGadol, z’tl that he go before the Kisei Hakavod and plead for mercy on the Olam HaTorah, that this evil gezeirah be annulled.”

It should be noted that HaRav Shach, z’tl also foresaw the withdrawal of state funding for yeshivos.

HaRav Bergman has said many times in the name of HaRav Shach, z’tl, that if a day comes when all bnei yeshivos are drafted, it is considered a gezeiras shmad and one must give up their life to avoid complying with it.

HaGaon HaRav Bergman davens at the kever of his father-in-law, HaGaon HaRav Shach, Ztl. (Shuki Lehrer)

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)