While many Torah educators of his time believed that the subject of modesty should not be spoken about in an open public forum, the Chofetz Chaim stridently disagreed. The letter he wrote on the issue is below.
35 teachers from Ulpanat Tzvia Hafetz Chaim called on the head of the Nahal Sorek Council to reverse the decision to transfer the institution from the Tzvia network to the Atid network.
“I can't afford it. If I close my factory on Shabbat, I will lose 4000 rubles each time," he said, but the Chofetz Chaim had the answer.
“If we had the capability,” he wrote to his son, “it would be appropriate to buy land and make aliyah to Eretz Yisrael.”
Close to a century ago, the Chofetz Chaim mourned the loss of modesty in Jewish circles. Today, every border is on fire. Opinion.
