A haredi yeshiva student visited with haredi leader Rabbi Aaron Leib
Shteinman (pictured at right) recently. The student, who claimed to have lost the motivation
to continue studying full time in yeshiva, asked for Shteinman’s
advice, telling Shteinman that he was considering enlisting in Israel’s
military.
Rabbi Aaron Leib Shteinman
An Encounter With Greatness
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Yeshiva World reports that a haredi yeshiva student visited with haredi leader Rabbi Aaron Leib Shteinman recently. The student, who claimed to have lost the motivation to continue studying full time in yeshiva, asked for Shteinman’s advice, telling Shteinman that he was considering enlisting in Israel’s military.
Shteinman responded by instructing him to “travel to India” rather than join the IDF.
When the student left Shteinman’s attendants asked him why he told the student to travel to travel to India of all places.
“What do I know? Perhaps they sent him and he has a recording device in his pocket. Afterwards he will go to the radio and the media and publicize what I said, that I told him that he can go into the IDF,” Shteinman reportedly replied.