Q&A: Lapid
Lapid
Question
Hello Rabbi Michi, isn’t Your Honor worried about the day when Yair Lapid becomes prime minister? Wouldn’t it be a disgrace to the citizens of the country that the strongest person in it has no higher education degree (not even a matriculation certificate, by the way), and also did not serve in the IDF in a meaningful role? Aren’t you concerned?
Answer
Not at all. Higher education and meaningful military service are really no guarantee of anything, and lacking them also says nothing at all. For now, those who do have higher education and served in the army look to me like quite a gang of major political failures.
That doesn’t mean Lapid is better. I just don’t think his biography matters for this issue.
Discussion on Answer
No.
I don’t know Yair.
But according to what is stated by our master Wikip., he is a great man, full of kindness and many achievements.
And for dessert, look up the personal column that was written about him by the dear one of the greats [namely Rabbi Chaim Walder] in Yated, and be sated with contentment.
In your opinion, is there really no certain correlation between education, meaningful service, and the quality of the person and his success? (I’m not talking about people for whom the above things don’t matter and who don’t care about them at all, like the Haredim, but about classic Israelis who grew up in places that sanctify those institutions.)