Several major ultra-Orthodox movements cancel the “Bein Hazmanim” summer break for yeshiva students because of the ongoing fighting in Gaza, Haredi website Kikar Hashabbat reports.
Gur yeshiva students will get to head home next Monday to take care of errands and spend the Tisha B’Av fast at home, and will return to their studies on Wednesday.
In the Belz Hasidic movement, students will remain in the study halls, but will enjoy a more relaxed learning environment, including guest speakers.
Inside the Mir Yeshiva, in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, in 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Hasidic rabbis ruled that it was strictly forbidden to take vacations and trips to national parks while IDF soldiers are fighting in Gaza.
Non-Hasidic Lithuanian courts are waiting for a ruling from their spiritual head, Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, who is expected to allow a limited break.
Sephardic ultra-Orthodox students were ordered last week by Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef to continue with their Torah study.
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