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Body : I received your letter from 8 Adar I.
[I refer now to] the claim that the official Zionist institutions are going against our holy religion in formal affairs. Realize that if we will believe everything that the masses say, there would be many such instances. However, we must obviously not build, based on [such reports], a fundamental approach to protest publicly against them.
That which indeed does exceed any doubt is that which the administration of the Gymnasium allowed themselves to do – to join the two genders together, young men and young women, in one school and the same classes, without any semblance of modesty or the way of Judaism. This is also the cultural approach of most of the enlightened countries, and the beginning of this sin [in Eretz Yisrael] started in the schools of the moshavot (agriculture settlements). Hashem knows what ethical deterioration will result from these behaviors. On this matter we should protest with all of our strength. It also seems that whenever they hold balls with large groups on Saturday night, they desecrate Shabbat without embarrassment while doing the preparatory work. Be strong, brothers with pure hearts. Let us work diligently to "fence off" [as much forbidden activity] as we can succeed in doing, and may Hashem be of assistance to us.
[Now we will turn to the public announcements about the Tachkemoni school, which the Mizrachi organization sponsored.] Rav Shlesinger has still not sent me [the text]. Certainly he will tell me soon. However, the matter is difficult for me in the short term, for I am entrenched in the position of leading the "Shaarei Torah" school. This is also a respected educational system, and even though it has a different approach and spirit from Tachkemoni, it still "goes to one place." That is, to erect on a strong foundation an institution that spreads the light of Hashem and the sanctity of the holy Torah on holy soil. I cannot touch anything that that Shaarei Torah is nourished from. Maybe it would be correct to connect this institution with [funds] that come from Russia by the encouragement generated by my public announcement. We will take this up again in future letters so that we can clarify the matter,
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180 - What Requires Protest? – #279
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