Ben Gvir
In honor of Rabbi Shalom
A. Due to what Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said about Ben Gvir that it is forbidden to ascend the Temple Mount, the Rabbi agrees to write an article on the matter.
B. What does the rabbi vote for in the government elections and why?
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A. I have already written my opinion on Yitzhak Yosef in the past. Regarding an article about ascending to the Temple Mount, I wrote that in my opinion it is motivated mainly by nationalist reasons and therefore I do not share it (although it is legitimate and it is obligatory to allow it). On the halachic question, I will think about it. This requires an elaboration of the issue, which I have not yet done.
B. What are the elections? First, it seems that there are elections and who are the candidates. I will just repeat and say that in principle I see no point in voting, since recent times have only proven my ancient thesis that everyone is the same. Support or criticism of this or that step depends on the position. Everyone does exactly the same thing, and when they are in opposition they criticize the things they themselves do and vote against what they themselves believe in. I see no reason to vote in elections in such a situation.
Of course, if Bibi runs, then it is very important and appropriate to vote for someone else to prevent his election. But this is a specific consideration that has nothing to do with policy (which he has none) but with the man and his corrupt destructiveness.
In mathematical terms, the situation is as follows: The election platforms of the various parties have no meaning. In the end, they all do X when they are elected and condemn X when they are in opposition. In the platform, they only introduce sentiments that will benefit them electorally and that has no practical meaning. Therefore, whether you like X or you are against it, that is what will happen. So why vote for it?! In practice, whoever is elected will do X.
If we denote the practical result of your choice by the function f, with the independent variable Z denoting what you chose, the function looks like this: f(Z) = X regardless of Z. So why does it matter what Z will be (who to vote for).
Add to this the fact that even if you voted for party A, there is no reason why its members of Knesset will defect to the opposing party B in order to promote X (instead of doing X together with the party within which they were elected). For example, Auerbach wants to defect to Likud/Smotritz to promote the Judea and Samaria law, but Likud/Smotritz voted against it and it was precisely Yamina that he is leaving that wanted to promote it. And another example, Bibi and Likud, who want a right-wing government, have been torpedoing it with their own asses for several years now. They accuse Yamina of surrendering to the Muslim Brotherhood (empty demagogy, of course) when they themselves are the ones who invented it. Yamina, Sa'ar and Bennett, together with Meretz and Labor, are promoting policies that are completely identical to those of Likud and the Haredim (except for a few attempts to improve the situation of the Haredim, and even that was unsuccessful, due to the opposition of the Haredim themselves).
This is truly a modern circus in Wonderland, and you will kill me if I understand why anyone is interested in this and why they should go vote.
I admit that there is frustration, but the rabbi also admits that every party has its own issue and only it wants to promote it so that people will vote for it, and therefore it will destroy for another party, even if it is the same issue. It is Torah and besides that, nothing, Smotrich, mainly Yehuda, and also Torah, Likud, stupidity, Lieberman, staying in the Knesset, etc. I ask
After all of the above, what did the rabbi vote for in the past and why?
I voted for several parties (Kahlon, Yamina, Beit Yehudi. Maybe Likud. I don't remember anymore), and for a large part I didn't vote at all.
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