Charedi Idealism and Sacrifice

I’ve heard two arguments about why even if one disagrees with the charedi avoidance of serving in the IDF, one should nevertheless respect them and/or not harshly critize them.

The first came from Rav Aharon Lopiansky, a charedi Rosh Yeshivah who I used to know well and who I still respect as a very fine person who tries to change things for the better. In a lecture in Ramat Beit Shemesh, he argued that one should appreciate the fact that charedim do not adopt their path out of a desire for wealt...