Chief Rabbi HaRav Yitzchak Yosef, who concluded his term on Sunday, criticized the judges of the Supreme Court during his shiur on Motzei Shabbos.
“The secular judges who aren’t familiar with a Daf Gemara – what do they know? It’s all chukos goyim. They don’t reach the ankles of our Rabbanim. I need to be afraid of them? No. We’ll do what we’ll do.”
HaRav Yosef’s statements come after the Supreme Court judges ruled last week that bnei yeshivos must be recruited to the IDf and funding halted to yeshivos and kollelim.
In the past, HaRav Yosef said: “The secular need to understand that without the kollelim and yeshivos, the IDF would not be successful. The success of the army is only in the zechus of the Bnei Torah.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
He’s amazing. Just like his father.
Full of Torah, not afraid to say the truth.
Even though he’s employed by the state, he’s not bound to them and will say the truth and what he feels is right.
We are extremely privileged that he took over his father and that we have a voice of reason by our Sefardic brethren in our generation.
He’s merely repeating what we all just heard from the Torah:
אל תראו את עם הארץ כי לחמנו הם
(במדבר יד:ט)
It seems that they are quite comfortable by having other young boys fight in a dangerous war instead of them.
אחיכם יבואו למלחמה ואתם תשבו פה
Chachamim – hizaharu b’divreichem.
Every Jew is absolutely bound by these words of the absolutely undisputable גדול הדור, even now after his term as Chief Rabbi, and even the army & supreme court are fully duty bound by these words of our venerated גדול הדור
@ader,
I suppose you are writing your comments from somewhere in gaza (either way your comment is stupid and telling of typical zionism which is the antithesis to the Torah Hakdosha).
“Even the army & supreme court are fully duty bound by these words of our venerated [Gadol Hador]
Not really. The secular and military courts in EY operate totally independently of the Rabbanut on most matters. They will likely consider R’ Yosef’s perspective but ultimately, the judiciary will decide for itself whether the government has complied with its ruling on the draft.