The singer explained that in his opinion there will be no need for an order against the introduction of chametz into hospitals if there is a mutual concession: "Do not press, do not ask for outrageous things, do not force or the High Court"
"The idea of freedom that is the essence of the holiday has been forgotten."
Yehoram Gaon
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The High Court approved chametz for hospitals about a week ago, and Yehoram Gaon had a lot to say on the subject. In a post he posted on his Facebook page last night (Saturday), the singer told about Judaism on its knees, and how he thinks problems can be solved between those who want a Jewish state and those who prefer religion. "I grew up in a house that saw the religious commandments as symbols of Jewish culture," Gaon began the post. "We never saw the commandment as a burden but a treasure. Bloom, I had a father who saw Passover as a universal symbol of human freedom, who saw on Saturday a social social property thousands of years old. In Yom Kippur, a day of soul-searching for man and in the many different customs and cultural foundations and spiritual foundation for the soul.
We came to every holiday in humility, not from the place of mitzvah and stress, and awe and fear, but from a place of holiness shrouded in grace and beauty, with its symbols each expressing in its time a different human, moral and cultural asset.
"Unfortunately, some of our people have a desire to privatize all of these, to make them a universal, non-binding folklore. Because they see them as difference and mitzvah and religious coercion while if understood correctly, they understand that they are great light and not darkness. Look what all this beauty looks like when forced into state law. Which goes to the High Court and is enforced by a state order and not by heart order, then we read that the Chief Rabbinate's request to hold another hearing on chametz in hospitals was rejected by the court and the Secular Forum declares it a 'holiday for the secular public in Israel'.
"On the one hand, they say: 'It is inconceivable that in a Jewish state, hospitals would be obliged to introduce chametz on Passover. On the other hand, a sane government does not tell its citizens what they are allowed and what they are not allowed to eat. And the idea of freedom is forgotten. You have to deny, and I honestly ask: who needs it and who is it good for? You know what will happen if tomorrow they ask to enact a law that compels a Jew to face his son, and it will come to the High Court to decide that it is not possible to force parents to injure their son. Etc., there will be riots again and lots of young fathers will say that just because it comes by the power of law they will not oppose their son.
I grew up in a house that saw in the commandments of religion, symbols of Jewish culture, we never saw in the commandments a burden but a treasure Bloom, I had a father who saw ...
Posted by יהeur גאם - Yehoram Gaon on Friday, January 15, 2021
"And today without the law of ninety - five percent of the people of the land speak their son, without noise and beeping, why do not learn a lesson from it? I would certainly be happy if Shabbat was Shabbat and Pesach was all matzah, and Yom Kippur was not the holiday of the bicycle but I am not alone, Jewish publicity on its customs I am convinced that it will come only from the place of mutual renunciation, where we will honor those who do not think like us.
"My father's cousin was the chief rabbi of the Portuguese community in England, Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Gaon.
I once came to London for a show and called him, and he happily invited me to sit down for lunch, and I replied 'gladly, but Your Honor', I told him, and he hesitated me saying 'I know what you want to say, but I long to see you and that's most important to me!' .
When I got to it it was a spectacular, playful, loving and embracing encounter.
Now I think, what would have happened if he had told me 'look if it involved an offense I would rather not come at all', or if he would have told me 'I would have been happy if you had respected me and come to me on foot', and after a few tens of miles I would walk to him And arrives in a wet and weary evening and without air, what would I think of him then… or rather what I would think then of the Sabbath that forced such suffering on me.
"It's the whole story not to press, not to ask outrageous things, not to force, not to the High Court, then everything would have looked different, how many pointless riots would have been spared from us, and how wonderful the Jewish public would have been if the whole thing had been consecutive with no concessions. The High Court! "
The post has so far received more than 2,000 likes and hundreds of shares and comments, most of which support his remarks.