Hardal

We're scared to try anything new.

We just want to defend what we have." Um, and you know, Rav Kook, contrary to, you know, today, people will look back and, like, project the complete lack of connection between the, you know, s- t- you know, the Hardal world- Right ...

and the, the, you know, the Chareidi world, and assume the same thing was true a hundred f- hundred, 120 years ago.

And the answer is, is it wasn't.

That is something I never realized.

Are you kidding me? In Hardal schools, in Orthodox schools, they don't talk about 1967 as a turning point.

I never knew that.

I never thought that.

And they wanted to, at first they said the religious soldiers who object, and who objects, it's not, it wasn't any solos, it was a choir.

So the Haredi soldiers and the Hardali soldiers objected.

So they told, no, they must show.

And there was an outcry, and thank God the army backed down, and if you wanted, you can walk out.

And the others, and this is the s- the, the school that Smotrich comes out of, doesn't.

Smotrich is of the, what they call Hardalim, Haredim leumim, that they accept the Haredi, the ultra-Orthodox critique of Western culture and society and everything that goes with it, but see themselves as nationalists.

I'm gonna ask you four quick questions that you're gonna give quick answers, and they have a l- you're, you're gonna have a lot to say in each of them.

But-