As far as Ethiopian Judaism is concerned, there is no need to choose between the Beit Midrash and the battlefield; Both express a single commitment to the people of Israel and its mission • Knesset member Rabbi Moshe Salomon chose to oppose the bill that sought to enshrine the study of the Torah as a "fundamental right", even though he knew that he would pay a personal and political price for it • To understand his decision it is not enough to observe the political reality, one must understand the spiritual world from which it arose