Rabbi Efrati: I do not want the ultra-Orthodox or religious Zionism in power

Writer Haim Barr's words that came out strongly against the national religious public continue to strike. Beer said that "Religious Zionism has become a cancerous tumor. If it is able to lead Israel, it will kill gays." Rabbi Baruch Efrati, Chairman of the Rabbi of Derech Faith responds in an interview to Walla! Judaism

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"No Jew and no group in Israeli society is cancer," responds sharply to Rabbi Baruch Efrati, Rabbi of "Faith Faith" in conversation with Walla! Judaism, "We've been through enough together over the last millennia to grow up and realize that even when we disagree, we depend on each other and love each other, and our common denominator is greater than anything else." Rabbi Efrati added that it is important to remember that a cancer cell in the body reproduces without regard to the entire body - while the goal of religious Zionism from birth was to make connections in the people of Israel - exactly the opposite of cancer.

The question of whether people with different sexual preferences will be murdered here if there is religious creed in power seems to have a clear answer: Those who claim to murder Jews here if there is a state under religious leadership simply do not know the law. "From a halakhic point of view, the Gemara tells us that when the Sanhedrin existed, a person killed seventy years ago, which is about what the State of Israel has done since its founding. To come and say that when Halakha administers a state and when the Jewish state acts according to the Torah, there is bloodshed here . "

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Beyond the halachic issue, Rabbi Efrati argues that although he is a religious Zionist, he does not want it to rise to power. "I sincerely hope that religious Zionism will not be in power, because whoever is in power is all the people of Israel. If one faction is in power it is a ruin. I would not want the ultra-Orthodox to be in power, nor the ultra-Orthodox nor the secular. Very much to all parts of society, or parliament like we have today. "

"The radical liberal minority in the State of Israel is very outspoken, very closed, unable to contain its own worldviews and it is unfortunate and painful for them," the rabbi concludes, "you can say that we disagree with religious Zionism and it is important to say that we will find out who we are by Dialogue and controversy The controversy is one of the most important bases of Judaism, but there is a difference between a disagreement and a mouth shut by someone who thinks differently from me and so I am not surprised that this is how people speak for freedom and equality and act just the opposite. ".