Harav Yaakov Yosef: Members of Knesset are "cheats and hypocrites"

During his lesson on Wednesday, Harav Yaakov Yosef attacked the members of Knesset regarding the enlistment of Yeshiva students. The Rav said: "These days there is a very strong propaganda against Torah learners, who are the ones who are inciting? The ones who incite are people about whom our sages have said that they are hypocrites, they "do the act of Zimri and want the reward of Pinchas", we hear this incitement every few years."

"Where does it come from?" the Rav wondered and answered: "We have here in Givat Ram a Knesset, and those members of Knesset want to receive more mandates, and they incite against the Bnei Yeshivos, and those people are the very worst hypocrites who exist in this generation. Why do I call them hypocrites? Very simple, they talk of equality for all, that every one is the same, but the law is that members of Knesset are exempt from the army, why do they not go to the army? If they really talk in all honesty, let them answer this".

"These are the people, they are cheats, they are hypocrites, and our sages have said about them: "Beware of hypocrites, who do the act of Zimri and ask for the reward of Pinchas".

"We do not fear," said the Rav, "Hakadosh Boruch Hu tells us in the Torah, "It will not be forgotten by his seed", during all the years the Bnei Yeshivos did not go to the army, and they will not go.

"They can blabber on", said the Rav about the members of Knesset, "They can blabber. It's not important whether a member of Knesset has a kipah on his head, if he has no kipah on his head, under the kipah everything is skew, therefore we're not worried about them, with the help of Hashem, Hashem is with us, do not fear".

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