Rabbi Tamir Granot’s son, Capt. Amitay Zvi Granot, was killed shortly after Hamas’s October 7 assault in an incident on the Lebanon border whereas combating Hezbollah.
The previous Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel and Shas non secular chief, Yitzhak Yosef, sharply criticized the pinnacle of Yeshivat Orot Shaul in southern Tel Aviv, Rabbi Tamir Granot, on Sunday throughout a Kol Hai radio broadcast, after Granot advocated for the enlistment of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) sector into the IDF.
Granot’s son, Capt. Amitay Zvi Granot, was killed shortly after Hamas’s October 7 assault in an incident on the Lebanon border whereas combating Hezbollah. Yosef claimed that Rabbi Granot was amongst a number of yeshiva heads who attacked him on tv.
“Aren’t you afraid of dishonoring Torah students?” Yosef requested him.
Yosef continued, alluding to Granot, “I believe there are a few of them that, if they arrive to affix the minyan, we can’t settle for them. They’re heretics. Not all of them.”
Granot had beforehand decried Yosef whereas he was chief rabbi, after Yosef threatened to go away Israel if the authorities compelled haredi yeshiva college students to enlist.
Haredim protest in opposition to the IDF draft outdoors Tel Hashomer recruitment base, April 28. 2025. (credit score: AVSHALOM SASSONI)
“You might want to ask forgiveness from my spouse, from her tears, and go as much as Mount Herzl and ask forgiveness from Amitay, a Yeshiva pupil and fight soldier, and from all of the righteous, holy, and pure Torah students who selected to combat, and likewise from those that aren’t Torah students however gave their lives,” Granot mentioned on the time.
“To go away for overseas in order to not combat a conflict of commandment, a conflict that may be a nationwide life-threatening state of affairs?! Honorable rabbi, are we in Russia? Is the military the Tsar’s military?” Ynet quoted him as saying.
Debate over moral points welcome, insults, degradation forbidden
Chairman of the Tzohar Rabbinical Group, Rabbi David Stav, mentioned in response to the trade that whereas debate over moral points is welcome, it’s “forbidden to insult and degrade.
“Torah discourse must be primarily based on humility, mutual respect, and duty to the phrase of God, not on private assaults. Is anybody who disagrees with you now not a rabbi? Nobody can declare a monopoly on the Torah and halacha,” he continued, including that the Torah was given to all of Israel and anybody who is devoted to it deserves respect and constructive discourse regardless of disagreement.
Rabbi Stav continued, based on Ynet, “When a rabbi in Israel chooses a language of insults and degradation towards one other Torah scholar, and particularly towards an individual who can be a bereaved father, it causes a extreme desecration of God’s title that harms the distinction of the Torah itself.”
