Q&A: Sanhedrin
Sanhedrin
Question
Hello Rabbi,
There are claims that it is impossible to renew and adapt Jewish law to our generation because there is no Sanhedrin. Does the Rabbi think that one should and that it is proper to establish a Sanhedrin (as Rabbi Yisrael Ariel tried to do in the past)?
Answer
Absolutely not. There is currently no consensus that would allow this (and as far as I’m concerned, that’s a good thing. In my opinion, those who would be sitting there nowadays should not be sitting there). And certainly not when a bunch of clowns decide to ordain themselves as a Sanhedrin. I wrote my opinion about this in the press at the time (it’s probably here on the site).
Beyond that, there are possibilities for change even without a Sanhedrin. I elaborated on this in the third book of the trilogy.
Discussion on Answer
Great sages of the generation?
They don’t know what a virus and a bacterium are.
They don’t know what the Pythagorean theorem is.
Great only at leading a herd of ignorant people astray.
Just a clarification for anyone afflicted with tendentious reading comprehension, like Binyamin. The clowns in my words are those who set up this so-called Sanhedrin. The rabbis who would be supposed to sit on a Sanhedrin if one were established today are not clowns, but I am very concerned about their receiving authority to decide, because I do not agree with their halakhic approach or their perception of reality.
Rabbi Michi, rabbis who have a problem with their grasp of reality such as: Chaim K., one of the “great sages of the generation,” who is convinced that Beit Shemesh is located honorably in America—is that the kind of rabbi who is supposed to sit on a Sanhedrin if one is established today???
Binyamin, did you read my last message? Or perhaps, as the saying goes, a teaching requires clarity of mind…
Amazing, the Rabbi called the “great sages of the generation” “a bunch of clowns”… ?!?!?!