Levi Schwartz

What About the Benefits from the State of Israel?

Some might ask: If Charedim receive so much from the government, why is there so much opposition to it? Shouldn’t they be grateful? Let’s explore this question in depth, not with defensiveness, but with clarity and honesty.

What Are the Practical Challenges of Full-Time Torah Learning, and How Do Families Manage?

The world sees a young kollel couple and wonders: How do they do it? Rent is high, groceries are expensive, tuition is crushing. And yet thousands of families across the globe dedicate their lives to full-time Torah learning with radiant joy!

How Does Torah Learning Protect Klal Yisrael?

The idea that Torah protects Klal Yisrael is not poetic license. It is one of the deepest truths embedded throughout our entire Torah—from pesukim in Tanach, to sugyos in Shas, to the writings of the Rishonim and Acharonim, and echoed passionately by every gadol in recent history.

How Is Torah Learning Seen as Benefiting Every Jew—Even Those Far from Observance?

In the worldview of Chazal, Torah learning is not a private act. It doesn’t just benefit the one who learns—it uplifts, protects, and draws blessing to the entire Klal Yisrael, even those who may not yet live according to Torah.

What Is the Charedi View of October 7th?

On Shemini Atzeres, 22 Tishrei 5784—October 7, 2023—the Jewish people awoke to a tragedy that shook the world. In the early morning, Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, breaching the Gaza border and carrying out one of the most barbaric attacks in modern Jewish history.

What is the Charedi View on Yom HaZikaron?

The Charedi community mourns every Jewish soul lost in war or terror, regardless of the uniform they wore or the path they walked in life. While Charedim may not always express that grief through state-instituted rituals, the pain is real — and the love for every Jew runs deep.

What Is the Charedi View on Yom HaShoah?

For many Israelis—especially in the secular world—it is the central day of remembering the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, often accompanied by themes of Jewish strength, defiance, and national pride.

What Is the Charedi View on the Phrase “Never Again”?

“Never Again.”Two words. Deeply emotional. Immortalized in Holocaust museums, shouted at rallies, etched into monuments.

What Is the Charedi View on the Holocaust?

The Holocaust—השואה—is one of the most unfathomable and devastating tragedies in all of Jewish history. Six million of our brothers and sisters were murdered, among them towering Torah giants, entire Chassidic dynasties, yeshivos, kehillos, children and elders.

Do Charedim Pray for the Success of the State of Israel? Why Don’t They Say the Prayer for the State in Shul?

Do Charedim not care about the country?Don’t they want peace, prosperity, and protection for their fellow Jews?Don’t they appreciate the freedoms and opportunities available in the land?

What Do Charedim Think About the Return of Hebrew as a Modern Language?

The revival of Hebrew might seem like one of the great miracles of Jewish history. A language that hadn’t been spoken for 2,000 years was reborn as a living, breathing form of speech—in government, in school, in everyday life.

What Do Charedim Think of the Israeli Flag and National Anthem?

For many Jews, the blue-and-white flag stir deep emotions—expressions of Jewish pride, survival, and national identity. But when these symbols are met with coolness or even rejection in Charedi neighborhoods, it raises a question: Why don’t Charedim relate to these symbols the same way?

Was Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook’s zt”l Approach in Line with Our Mesorah?

Few figures in modern Jewish history inspire as much admiration in one world and concern in another as Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook zt”l. To some, he is a visionary prophet of redemption; to others, a sincere talmid chacham whose ideas ultimately diverged from the firm path of Torah mesorah.

Why Are Gedolim So Important to Be from Our Mesorah?

The Jewish people have always walked through history with a guiding hand in every generation. That hand is the Gadol HaDor—the leading Torah sage of the time, a man shaped entirely by the Torah and who, in turn, shapes the Torah world through clarity, humility, and unwavering fealty to the mesorah.

Why Is “Mesorah” Such an Integral Part of Judaism?

Imagine a glowing flame passed from hand to hand, father to son, rebbi to talmid, generation to generation—never allowed to go out. That is mesorah. It is the heartbeat of Torah Judaism—the uninterrupted chain of truth that binds Har Sinai to the present day.

What Is the Difference Between Charedim and Religious Zionists in Their Hashkafa?

On the surface, Charedim and Religious Zionists share much: a love for mitzvos, a passion for Eretz Yisrael, a deep commitment to Klal Yisrael. But beneath these similarities lies a major point of divergence—how we understand the story of the Jewish people, our exile, and our redemption.

Is Zionism one of the 70 Faces of Torah?

Shiv’im Panim LaTorah”—But Not Shiv’im Paths Outside the Torah

Do Charedim Believe That the State of Israel Is a Chilul Hashem or a Kiddush Hashem?

For many Jews, the modern State of Israel stirs pride, gratitude, and even a sense of spiritual destiny. So it’s understandable that people ask: Why don’t Charedim view the state as a Kiddush Hashem? Do they think it’s a Chilul Hashem instead?

Is Zionism Working?

Zionism began as a secular national movement in the late 19th century, spearheaded by individuals like Theodor Herzl, who believed that the only way for Jews to survive and normalize their status among the nations was to establish a sovereign state.

What Is the Torah’s Interpretation of the Three Oaths in Kesubos 111a?

If there’s one sugya that stands at the heart of the Torah perspective on Zionism and the Jewish return to Eretz Yisrael, it’s the passage in Kesubos 111a known as the Three Oaths.

Why Do Charedim Oppose Saying Hallel on Yom HaAtzmaut?

But across the Charedi world, you will not find Hallel said on Yom HaAtzmaut—not in yeshivos, not in batei medrash, and not in Charedi shuls. And the reason is not a lack of gratitude or denial of the goodness Hashem has granted. It is, first and foremost, a matter of halacha.

What’s the Difference Between the Charedi View of Galus and the Zionist View?

Is exile simply a political condition—something to be reversed by statecraft, armies, or human will? Or is it a spiritual reality, a consequence of our sins and the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash, to be ended only by Hashem at the proper time?

What’s the Torah’s View on Liberalism?

"Liberal values" — as used in the modern West — include things like freedom of expression, tolerance, gender equality, personal autonomy, and non-judgmentalism. These ideals sound noble. But Torah Judaism does not judge ideals based on feelings or trends. It judges based on emes.

When a Charedi Sins, Is That a Contradiction to Being Charedi?

Why is it that when a Chareidi Jew stumbles or fails, it makes headlines? Why does social media erupt with cynicism and mockery? And why does it feel like our failures are used not just to shame us, but to delegitimize the entire Torah?

What Is the Torah’s View on Mocking Charedim and Their Gedolim?

Publicly mocking Charedim—or worse, mocking their Gedolim and Rabbanim—is not merely bad middos or a chilul Hashem. It is, according to halachah, a severe issur with terrifying consequences for the individual, the community, and even the Jewish People at large.

How Have Chareidi Gedolim Built Bridges Without Compromising Torah?

The Chareidi world has never believed that standing for Torah means standing against people. Quite the opposite: our greatest Gedolim have shown us how to live with strength and compassion, with unwavering emes and overflowing ahavas Yisrael.

MK Meir Porush: ‘The Attorney General Is Pushing Israel Toward Civil War’

“We are approaching a situation of civil war in the State of Israel—between the chareidim and the secular public. This is all fueled by the Attorney General. She is the one driving this.”

Secret Bnei Brak Meetings Seek U.S. Intervention to Stop Arrests of Bnei Torah

Behind closed doors in Bnei Brak this week, high-level secret meetings took place between a special American envoy—representing U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio—and the senior Gedolei Eretz Yisrael.

Mercaz Magen U’Moshiah: Standing Guard for Every Ben Torah

The persecution of lomdei Torah in Eretz Yisrael has reached a shocking new low. This week, six bnei yeshiva—whose only “crime” was dedicating their lives to Torah learning—were arrested and thrown into prison.

What Is the Charedi View on Learning Torah Full Time?

In a world driven by career ambition and financial success, the Charedi emphasis on full-time Torah learning may seem puzzling to many. But to a Torah Jew, it is not extreme at all. It is the most natural expression of what it means to be part of a nation whose very identity is rooted in Torah.