Inspiration is an abstract, elusive and mysterious thing.
Appears when she feels like it, hides frequently and cannot be touched.
Sometimes inspiration is surprising and appears in places where we wouldn't think to look for it.
Such an event, in which a piece of inspiration suddenly appeared to her from an unexpected direction and on the verge of puzzling, took place this week, when it became clear that five members of Shas put forward a bill seeking to establish that all Israeli banknotes should be printed with the sentence "In God we trust".
The source of the inspiration is clear, and is clearly written in the explanatory notes submitted with the bill: "We must state our trust in Hashem, as is the practice of the United States, which stamps the inscription In God We Trust on the dollar bills," it says. The explanation also includes verses from a number of Psalms, a section of a blessing The food and sentences like "It is important to thank God and express faith on the bills".
Five members of the Knesset, ultra-orthodox Jews, suck the spirit of the great America, which also maintains a dramatic separation between religion and state.
America, whose founders and the thinkers of the idea of turning God into a material banknote were devout Christians, and many of its citizens still see Jesus as their favorite Jew.
The honorable members of the Knesset from the Shas are actually returning the crown of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton to their old age.
This puzzling connection, between members of the Shas Knesset and Uncle Sam's religious practices, could have been exempted from serious treatment as anecdotal and even amusing, but precisely in its ridiculousness and strangeness lies the problem.
It is clear to every citizen - from the Prime Minister to the Mishdrot restaurant - that the proposal will not pass.
This is a tirade that echoes the intoxication of victory in the elections, the valuable time of legislators that will go down the drain, and the occupation of dealing with the Statue of Liberty.
The Knesset is neither a Broadway musical nor a stage for entertainment, especially not when the roar of the storm is around.
It is doubtful whether the leaders of Shas are interested in the import of American democratic products to the Israeli political market. There is no doubt that their proposal to rub the name of Hashem on the Israeli banknotes causes the Israeli citizen to perceive the Knesset as someone whose members see it as a stage for gimmicks and distractions from the dramatic issues at hand, the most important of which is the struggle on the status of the legislature.
The bill, according to the Knesset members who proposed it, came as a "virtue for the economic success of the State of Israel."
Trolling and comical use of the Knesset are a surefire way to lose trust in elected officials, and the fast way to turning the entire House of Representatives into a joke - just like in America.
The political conversion rate of turning Israeli bills into dollars is by a large margin higher than the profit created by the tariff in the bill to print the name of the sovereign of the world on bills.
The Israeli voters sent their elected representatives to the Knesset with clear goals, and now their job is to pay off the bill - and not to propose strange changes to it.
We will all pay for the lack of seriousness and the treatment of the Knesset as an American comedy club, and in cash.
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