The struggle of the chief rabbis in the conversion reform is escalating, as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox and religious rabbis will gather and protest against the intention of the Minister of Religions, Matan Kahana, to allow city rabbis to establish conversion courts.
At an emergency conference to be held next Tuesday, which will be attended by leading rabbis in religious Zionism, they demonstrate in practice that for them there is unanimity in both the ultra-Orthodox sector and the national religious sector against the reform.
In recent weeks, since the final version of the conversion reform was published, the Minister of Religions has been trying to recruit rabbis to support his outline, but with the exception of a few individual rabbis, even if relatively influential, most rabbis make it clear they oppose the reform.
Now, it seems, the rabbis want to hold a show of force and prove that most rabbis in Israel do not support the new outline.
Last week, Chief Rabbi David Lau, who is one of the readers of the conference, was interviewed by "Israel Today" and clarified that he will fight with all his might in the conversion reform.
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At the emergency conference to be held at the nation's buildings in Jerusalem, the rabbis will protest against the reform.
"The reforms will divide the people, it is impossible to enact laws concerning the future of the Jewish people together with reformers and Arabs," it was stated before the conference.
According to the organizers, hundreds of rabbis have already announced that they will attend the huge rally that will take place in the presence of the chief rabbis.
Awareness for the conference, Photo: Courtesy of the photographer
Among the participants in the rally will be rabbis from all the Orthodox communities in Israel and the Diaspora, Ashkenazi, Hassidic and Sephardi ultra-Orthodox rabbis, rabbis from the Diaspora who will participate in the conference, rabbis and heads of national and mustard religious yeshivas. Rabbi David Chai HaCohen, Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, Rabbi Aviner and other rabbis from all over the country. The Jew. "
In a letter signed by the two chief rabbis, Rabbi David Lau and Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, who defined themselves as "the signers of sorrow over the destruction of religion," they called on the rabbis to attend the emergency conference.
"The recent events indicate a struggle for the independence of the rabbinate in Israel. Morning news brings to the decision-makers' table ideas and laws that change the status quo, erode the status of Israeli rabbis and destroy relations on religion and state issues."
This, they say, was reflected in the kosher reform, and now also in the conversion reform.
"Now they are turning to bills to allow Dabai to stand at the entrance gate to the people of Israel, thereby undermining the foundations of purity and the attribution of the Jewish people in Israel and the Diaspora, which will cause tears for generations."
Letter from the Chief Rabbis prior to the emergency meeting,
"Conversion issues are the barrier to assimilation, which has been maintained for all generations, and now we seek to uproot it with a determined forehead, contrary to the position of Halacha and the knowledge of all the great men and rabbis of Israel in the Diaspora." "Israel to gather and stand for the soul of the nation. To announce, accept with a committee our opinion, Da'at Torah, that" this Torah will not be replaced, "the rabbis concluded.
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