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Independence Day

שו”תCategory: HalachaIndependence Day
asked 2 years ago

What is the place of this day in your teaching?
Do you celebrate something special on it or is it like any other day? Do you say supplications? Or Hallel? Only during the day or also in the evening? Without or with a blessing? Do you shave on this day? Do you prepare a big day meal?
Or none of the above?


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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago
In my opinion, this is a secular-national holiday. I am happy that the state was established and that we have independence. That is why I do not say Tachanun and I also say Hillel. The analogy for this is the Haredi joke about the Rabbi of Ponivaz who did not say Hillel and did not say Tachanun, like Ben-Gurion (who also did not say Hillel and did not say Tachanun). In my opinion, his intention is to say that they should treat the day as if it were a secular holiday (that is why he did not say Hillel. In my opinion, there is no reason to avoid Hallel even on a secular holiday. Hallel is said for salvation from trouble and victory). But I refuse to accept halachic practices on this day (a certain type of blessing for one another, a special version of the prayer, etc.), except for saying Hillel. These regulations are an attempt to create a significant and authoritative Chief Rabbinate that does not force injustice. As for shaving, I don’t shave on weekdays either, but there’s definitely a place to shave and listen to music on this day, because it’s a happy day.

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עזרא replied 2 years ago

The Ramban in the interpretation of the law says that we will not be left in the hands of the nations or in a wilderness. That is, Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. So why is the day on which the commandment was fulfilled after two thousand years of exile a secular holiday?

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The rabbi, including a possible haircut

nav0863 replied 2 years ago

Hallelujah with blessing?

אנא replied 2 years ago

A. Do you also allow head shaving?
B. Is Hanukkah also a secular national holiday. If not, then what is the difference?

אנא replied 2 years ago

Hallel at night with a blessing?

אאא replied 2 years ago

examination

אנא replied 2 years ago

Can you please address this to the manager?

אנא replied 2 years ago

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מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

First of all, because there is no religious authority today that can fix a religious holiday. Indeed, both Hanukkah and Purim are secular holidays in this sense, but they have halakhic validity because the fixers had authority.
The Ramban is not a matter of slander, and that commandment was not fulfilled either, because the conquest of the land was not carried out by the people of Israel, but by a collection of Jews who did not intend the mitzvah. And even if the commandment was fulfilled, do you establish a holiday for it every time you fulfill a mitzvah? Furthermore, is there no significance to this day according to the Ramban?
It is certainly possible to say Hallel with a blessing. And in my opinion, it is also possible to get a haircut.

יוסף replied 1 year ago

If there is no religious authority today that can fix a religious holiday, then why can the Chief Rabbinate fix the recitation of Hallel on this holiday? Apparently, this also requires religious authority, as is the norm.

מיכי Staff replied 1 year ago

First, who said there is no? A rabbi or a community can fix things for their community. But the Chief Rabbinate can't fix anything. They are just a collection of corrupt and pathetic officials. Not a rabbi or a rabbi.
Independence Day is a national holiday determined by public representatives. There is no obligation to do anything on it because the rabbinate determined it. Just like the American or Turkish Independence Day.

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