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The government

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asked 3 years ago

Hello and have a good week. My name is Jonathan Gavish. I don’t know if the rabbi remembers me. I have attended the rabbi’s classes in the past and we have corresponded and met in the past.
I agree with most of what the rabbi wrote regarding the government. As someone who tries to be religious and Torah-obedient, I see the moral bankruptcy of the religious public, most of whom unfortunately stand behind people who, in my opinion, are completely unacceptable from a moral perspective, like Trump and Bibi, as nothing less than a catastrophe.
The rabbi wrote:

  1. I also disagree with the statements that the entire reform is intended to influence Bibi’s trial. In my opinion, this is nonsense. In my opinion, nothing will happen in his trial even if the reform passes with full force. To this day, I have not heard a convincing scenario of how it could even have an effect, except for conspiratorial and unconvincing delusions. It is clear to me that Bibi is not really pushing for the reform and does not really want it. In my opinion, it will only harm him personally. Therefore, the anti-Bibi campaign to fight this reform is just demagogy.

Does Rav not agree with the fact that one of Bibi’s top priorities is to control the judicial selection committee, which can influence the composition of judges who will hear his appeal, and that for this he is willing to pass any reform?

Additionally, as someone who very much identifies in principle with the rabbi’s view in general and on the issue of the government in particular, except for the issue of a crime for its own sake, and as someone who feels relatively alone with this worldview in the Haredi religious space, I am interested in hearing your impressions of the religious public’s reactions to what you write. Are more people beginning to understand the danger of this government?

Thank you very much and have a good week.


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מיכי Staff answered 3 years ago
Hello, I definitely remember. This seems completely absurd to me. First, until he manages to replace a significant number of Supreme Court justices, it will be many years. He also needs to control the panel that will hear his case. And finally, they also need to obey (conservative judges rule quite a bit against conservatism). There is almost no chance that he will influence this, and to do this whole thing is a really deranged conspiracy. If anything, I would suspect that he wants to stir up a mess so that he can moderate the reform and gain public recognition as the responsible adult. Alternatively, that he be offered amnesty in a deal for the reform, but I don’t think that’s a possibility either, if only because it clearly seems like Bibi no longer has control over the matter. He himself would like to moderate the reform and he probably can’t. In short, completely ridiculous.

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י׳ replied 3 years ago

I saw some of the responses to what the Rabbi wrote and I was pretty shocked by the people who loved reading you and now can't anymore. So as much as it matters, I'll mention that I've always loved and enjoyed reading the Rabbi and now more than ever!

מיכי Staff replied 3 years ago

Don't worry. Everything is fine. There are always people who are captive, and I assume that they will calm down with time. I have long understood that the commenters on the site are not a representative sample of the readers. There are a lot of silent people who read and do not comment, and among the commenters are usually those who object and are angry.
By the way, I prefer comments on the site rather than by email.
All the best,

ב replied 3 years ago

I thought and still believe that he used the reform as a lever to pressure Lapid and Gantz into joining his government so that he could neutralize the messianic lunatics Smotrich and Ben Gvir. In practice, he didn't succeed, and in the current state of the polls, there's no chance that any of them will be connected to him.

פתחתקוואי replied 3 years ago

I agree with the rabbi that the issue of changing the committee is absurd and will affect the judiciary, but for example, the plan to turn the acting minister into a position of trust directly affects Netanyahu's cases because he can withdraw the indictments. Although I also believe that the reason for the reform is not Bibi but his associates, and it could be that he would prefer that it never happened, but the result of such a move cannot be ignored.

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