A moving video from election day shows the power of bittul daas to gedolei Yisrael: a chareidi voter came to the Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlita, intending to vote for Prof. Yaron Zelekha's economic party, but ended up voting for Degel HaTorah instead.
In the footage released Tuesday, the Rosh Yeshiva's grandson presented the bochur and asked for a brachah on his behalf: "There's someone named Zelekha... secular... who has an economic party. And he said that if Zeide... if there's a brachah from Zeide, that there should be good and calm parnassah, then he'll vote for Degel HaTorah."
But the voter himself quickly corrected the record: "It was the opposite! It was the opposite. I said I'm nullifying my opinion, because we saw the Rosh Yeshiva stamping his feet and calling to support the Rosh Yeshiva and the gedolei Yisrael, and we nullified our opinion. Regardless, we're also asking for a brachah."
