[Avodah] Fwd: Rabbi Hershel Schachter - True Freedom

[Doron Beckerman]

Why was RHS so stunned? If the high school in question takes metzuyonim
only (and if he is referring to Nachalas Haleviyim, then it pretty much
is), then the goal of that high school is to produce people who will sit
and learn for a very long time, no less than the goal of an Air Force cadet
school is to produce Air Force pilots. And the Netziv in Terumah says this:

It is the will of the king that anyone who is fit for battle should become
a soldier, and anyone who shirks this, even if, based on the laws of the
kingdom, he is not obligated to be a soldier, nonetheless that is not the
primary will of the king. Similarly, it is the will of Hashem that all Jews
who are fit to toil in Torah should be Bnei Torah, and one who shirks this,
even if he has reasons which bring this about for him, nonetheless he is
called “Not doing the will of Hashem,” in Berachos (35) and Bava Basra
(99). Although they were involved with Avodah, nonetheless since they were
not toiling in Torah as when they were in the desert, that is not called
doing the will of Hashem.
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