There is a popular saying that "the second day of the revolution is harder than the revolution." It is not easy to be a revolutionary, but it is more difficult to maintain the revolution. The nature of a revolution is that it causes a feeling of transcendence saturated with adrenaline and romance. The next day, seemingly, is already a day of inconsequentialities, a day of simple everyday deeds, detached from the sense of transcendence of the first days. The day after the revolution is not only more difficult, but it is no less important than the day of the revolution. For it is the one that determines whether the revolution will be a passing episode or the beginning of a new path, which has a continuation for generations. The late Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the first Chief Rabbi of the IDF, was a revolutionary in character and action. There is no doubt that the construction of the military rabbinate with the establishment of the IDF was a real revolution. His successor, the late Rabbi Mordechai Firon, the second chief rabbi of the IDF, had to do something no less difficult: Preserve that revolution, take care of the its second day, to make sure that the revolution set by Rabbi Goren will not be a passing episode, but a movement for generations.

And he did so with great success. For a total of six years, Rabbi Firon served as Chief Military Rabbi, one of the short tenures in this position for the first five decades of the state. Despite his relatively short tenure as his predecessor and successor, Rabbi Gad Navon (each of whom served for about 23 years, almost four times as much as Rabbi Firon), Rabbi Firon's tenure was very significant in the military rabbinate's path. His contribution did not fall short of that of his predecessor or any of his successors, perhaps even surpassed their contribution, and it gives its significance lingers to this day. Over the years, the unique character of Rabbi Firon has been somewhat forgotten.

Generations come and go, and future generations are less familiar with the first generations. A recently published book, "Rabbi, Maj. Gen. - The Life Story of the late Rabbi Mordechai Firon", written by journalist and historian Hagai Huberman, came to shed some light on the character and work of the late Rabbi Mordechai Firon, a man whose resume represents the generation of the Holocaust and the revival of the Jewish people during the contemporary Return to Zion: The son of the nobles from Vienna, who grew up and was educated by the Viennese bourgeoisie, and found himself studying agriculture in Israel in his youth.

The boy who grew up in a non-Zionist family, who miraculously survived the clutches of the Nazis, who immigrated to Israel alone without a Zionist ideology, without acquaintances, without relatives and without a penny in his pocket; the young man who was involved in various yeshivas in Israel, including two of the leaders in religious Zionism - Kfar Haroeh and Merkaz Harav - who found it difficult to be absorbed in the yeshiva world due to his skeptical and rebellious nature and his philosophical thinking toward Judaism. The Chief Military Rabbi, a position in which he served during the difficult days of the Yom Kippur War saturated with blood; he instilled Judaism in senior IDF officers as a lecturer at the Command and Staff School. He liked to argue and confront the representatives of the Christian world, including priests and cardinals, who proved that not only Judaism, even Christianity, he knew better than they did.