At the closing ceremony of the Babylonian Talmud last night, the Chief Rabbi referred to the department of the PM and called it "cancelation of the Torah" • Then mocked his participants: "I saw a professor with a bible in the bald and a bald headless, on the other hand sat a woman without hands in silence and several others with a beaked dome Like Bennett "
Rav Yitzchak Yosef // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Spanish Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef expressed extraordinary opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Bible Circle, which took place several years ago, calling it "cancellation of Torah." At the end of the Babylonian Talmud's end of the political party associated with the Shas party, which took place last night ( Two) At the Arena Stadium in Jerusalem, Rabbi Yosef DeBar spoke and shared with many attendees his impressions from a 2013 visit to the department.
"He did it in his garden," the rabbi said. "There was new furniture, everything is legal and beautiful. I went and talked to Torah. I finished talking and wanted to go, grabbed me by the hand of the Prime Minister and told me: 'No, you sit with us.' I was afraid, what I would do. I stayed there for three hours. . I got bored".
The rabbi continued to recreate the event from his point of view and moved on to descriptions of the other participants: "I looked around. This is a regular Bible study hosted by the Prime Minister at home. Who's sitting there? I saw a professor with a Bible in his hand and a bald headless dome, on the other hand sat a woman without hands, quietly, and a few others with a dome like Bennett. I pondered in my heart, where is the Torah light that returns to the beneficiary? They study Torah, how do they not repent? "
PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his Wife Sing in the Bible Circle // Photo: Mark Israel Salem
The Bible Department at the Prime Minister's House was founded by First Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in 1958, shortly after the first Bible quiz for adults, but it faded over the years. The activity was resumed about six years ago by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, and today it is attended by academics, writers, poets and social activists. In September 2013, a meeting was held with the Chief Rabbis of Israel, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef and Rabbi David Lau.
The end of the Babylonian Talmud ceremony will be allocated a million shekels from the Jerusalem Municipality's funds and will take place under the status of Minister of Development for the Negev and Galilee Aryeh Deri, Mayor Moshe Leon, Shas Torah Council members, including Rabbi Shalom Cohen, and the participation of thousands of Yeshivot, rabbis and rabbis.