"Friends and money don't go together", sing Assi Cohen and Maor Cohen in one of the biggest hits of "Aretz Fehadal".
According to the song, Cabanos and Nutella don't go together, weed and psychometric, marathon and Jahanon.
The Pashkeville published by Rabbi Ya'akov Madan is a justified reason to add another house to the song: elections and rabbis - it doesn't go together.
Rabbi Madan came out of the stress of the holidays with good news for the nation: we need to vote for the Jewish House.
For decades now, when the opinions of rabbis have been fooling us, we have entered behind the curtains.
The people are depressed by the fact that there are no educational institutions, but there are yeshiva leaders who, after three weeks of meals and prayers, return to work and think that a political opinion is more relevant to our existence.
Indeed, rabbis and elections do not go together.
The Pashkeville published by Rabbi Yaakov Medan is a justified reason to add another verse to the song.
Kochavi Eretz is great in the song "It doesn't go together",
Ban Gabir objected "even at the cost of not passing the percentage of the blockade".
Rabbi Yaakov Madan, photo: Oriya Tadmor
In the corner of evidence from the past, let me embrace the obvious example (2015): Rabbi Eli Sadan, who threatened Naftali Bennett with an electoral flight of the religious Zionists, if he dares to add the footballer and shampoo model Eli Ohana to his party's ranks.
He actually said then that if the Jewish Home put this Mizrahi Star on their list, he would take the students to the streets.
More mechanics would have left the Beit Midrash to see him on the field, but Naftali was pressed, and the Mizrachi Torun was eliminated from the Torun figure.
There are also examples from the recent past - look at what happened with Rabbi Druckman not long ago, when he got into a cat, mouse and seahorse fight with his colleague Amit Halevi and Smotrich on the issue of joining Mansur Abbas to the coalition, which in the end existed without the Torah and the Koran.
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If I were to formulate the events of the last day as a status on social networks, it would be like this:
nobody:
Literally no one:
Rabbi Medan: So you want to know who I am implying to vote for?
* crickets *
Rabbi Medan: Well, I will elaborate.
*eye roll*
The election survey: Ayelet Shaked stands at 1.7 percent and is further away from the blocking percentage.
Rabbi Madan: If we vote for her, she will pass, and here is a special message for you that I thought about every Simchat Torah.
- Sir, I just asked what you would like to order.
So in the revelation published by Rabbi Madan, he states that the question is not which party is right, but which party may be the tip of the scales in the upcoming elections.
The rabbi, who speaks as a political-strategic commentator or as a communicator-astrologer, states that "according to the polls" - which on that day predicted for the Jewish Home less than 2 percent on average - "the mobilization of many of us in favor of the Jewish Home may, according to the polls, result in the Jewish Home passing the The blocking percentage... it's not in the sky!"
"If we vote for her, she will pass," Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked in the Israel Hayom studio, photo: Koko
However, the rabbi noted that if not enough people mobilized, the feeling of disappointment at the Jewish Home remaining away from the Knesset would be "bitter and sour".
This style, in which a rabbi puts responsibility for the results of elections on the shoulders of individuals, scares me.
People who believe in private surveillance (full disclosure - I'm totally into it, down to the smallest detail) take such statements seriously.
It is dangerous to tell your followers, even if they excel in rationalism, that they have so much power in their hands.
It sounds like Rabbi Eliyahu Begush Katif's "Hiya La Hicha" and it is a genre that has failed.
Rabbi studied Halacha.
A rabbi didn't study probability and doesn't understand external politics, and even if he stopped getting a degree in mathematics or political science before ordination to the rabbinate - that's not why God-fearing people see him as a spiritual guide.
Even if pressure was put on him, and even if the pressure comes from a politician who did a lot for the settlement - he should think about the good of his followers and give credit to his students, who are considered the most intellectual, regarding decisions at the ballot box.
Being silent is also a kindness.
Rabbi Madan has previously lamented the loosening of the alliance with the ultra-orthodox public.
Perhaps this is why he decided to act like Rabbi Tao, whose students always waited for the Torah class next to the elections to hear from the majority which ballot to put in the ballot.
And perhaps the rabbi did not notice that the ultra-Orthodox decided which group they belong to.
The block percentage motif
Especially because in 2019, when there was talk of a technical block, rather than a union, of splinters of religious Zionist parties with Ben Gabir's Otzma Yiddish, Rabbi Madan came out as a buffer against the initiative.
Madan, who is known for tolerance and pluralism (for example, towards the LGBT community), then claimed that as long as Ben Gabir keeps a picture of Baruch Goldstein in his living room - it is better not to exceed the blocking percentage and not to make a technical block with him, the main thing is not to cooperate with someone whose house looks like this from within.
A cool statement considering that the Gavizon-Madan Convention made it a point that no one looks into each other's private rooms.
Great rabbis like great respect, and sometimes this makes them pursue petty politics.
Elections are tiring, but rabbinical business is more tiring.
The public will leave them out of its considerations.
The voter likes his politics free from businessmen, and also from rabbis.
Even the Shas know how to consume their leaders as they are, pure politicians.
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