Question

Good morning. I listened very attentively to last night’s lecture and, as usual, enjoyed it. I think that the definition of the rabbi of the public, or the rabbi of the people, rests on the assumption that the public living in the country is relatively homogeneous. In my opinion, that assumption is mistaken, and it is more correct to speak of a number of different publics: a Zionist public, a Muslim/Christian public, a secular public, a religious public. Each such public would seek a rabbi for itself and determine the way of life acceptable to it, and above that, of course, one could create a federal framework. Any other approach, in my opinion, will not succeed over time. The only thing that seems common to me among the publics living in the country is the enemy, who does not distinguish between the different publics.