Reply To: You’re In Charge of Brooklyn Jewry… What Do You Do?

Right. The Torah mandates that (and specifies the penalty). The King can insure the Torah prescribed rules are enforced by the courts.

I’m pretty sure you mean “ensure” not “insure.”

In any event, even if what you say is true, there are no qualified courts — and the king cannot create them of his own volition, so it doesn’t really matter.

Furthermore, as per the OP, you wouldn’t be a halachic king (with all the halachic powers it entails) simply because a king is not elected… the position is inherited. My OP meant king/queen in terms of being granted practical authority, not necessarily the actual halachic status of a king.

The Wolf