When Yeshivos Crushed Syria

A few months ago, we learned a suprising revelation from Israel’s charedi Yated Neeman newspaper. It turns out that when thousands of Hezbollah fighters had their hands blown off, this was not, as was widely claimed, the result of a meticulously planned Mossad operation. Rather, it was solely the result of (charedi) yeshivah students learning Torah. This week, the Yated quotes the Rosh Yeshiva of Grodno, the “Gaon” Rabbi Derovkan, who informs us that the collapse of Syria demonstrates the power ...