חדש באתר: עוזר בינה מלאכותית המבוסס על כתביו ושיעוריו של הרב מיכאל אברהם

Q&A: Between Elections and Collective Generalization

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Between Elections and Collective Generalization

Question

Hello Rabbi, have a good week.
I spent almost half an hour searching intensely for an exact quote of something you said, and since I couldn’t find it in the depths of the flourishing site, I’m forced to rely on my memory (and on the intuition that my memory doesn’t betray me ;-), so if I’m mistaken this question has no meaning.)
 
I once read, in passing, a side remark of yours—that the fundamentalist public is gradually becoming marginal, and that one should not relate to it, its statements, and its expressions as representing the broader religious public.
When I saw the election results on Wednesday, memories of those remarks of yours came back to me, along with a feeling of divine concealment from the people living in the land. About 20 seats, which in my estimation represent a public that is mostly fundamentalist. And on the other hand, perhaps with a crude generalization (and maybe too crude), without taking Likud voters into account, not even one seat for supporters of separation of religion and state (Zehut), or for a party that is independent and, heaven forbid, not subject to rabbis’ considerations (the New Right) –
Isn’t there a certain public statement here whose meaning is that perhaps your comments, as I remember them, about the gradual decline and marginalization of fundamentalism in religious society do not stand the test of reflection in democratic political reality?
Thank you very much

Answer

I don’t remember writing that. I do think that the non-fundamentalist public is growing (and consolidating as a public in its own right). Elections are not a measure of anything. Especially considering the fact that even a non-fundamentalist public is not always intelligent.

Discussion on Answer

Itai (2019-04-14)

The Rabbi said this in an interview with the website “Let There Be Light” (may the memory of the wicked be for a curse)

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