Tzvi Chakak, the mythological assistant to Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L has received a letter of dismissal from the Shas Party, his employer.
While Maran was alive the Office of the State Comptroller granted Shas a special permit to employ the rav, who served Maran tirelessly. Following the petira of the gadol hador the comptroller has ruled there is no justification to continue funding R’ Chakak’s salary. Hence, Shas has been instructed to dismiss him from his position.
Seeking to avoid the firing, some Shas officials are suggesting appointing Chakak as the secretary of the Moetzas Gedolei Hatorah. They explain the rav served Maran for 20 years with mesirus nefesh and today he must continue in the capacity as secretary, unwilling to accept the dismissal of such an individual.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This is the second time in about a week that YWN has misused the word “mythological”. Unicorns, dragons, and the Loch Ness monster are mythological. Real live people are not. I’m not even sure what the writer was trying to say.
“Following the petira of the gadol hador the comptroller has ruled there is no justification to continue funding R’ Chakak’s salary. Hence, Shas has been instructed to dismiss him from his position.”
Can Shas keep him and pay him out of their own pocket? I think they would owe him at least that much. Also, it sounds like this man was paid as a government employee, so I imagine that at the very least he will have some sort of pension from them. At least it’s something.
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I think the writer meant to write “Legendary”.
That makes sense.
1. If he’s mythological he should never be paid, and whomever was receiving his salary probably should be put in prison. Only real people should hold jobs.
2. If the State Controller is involved, it suggests he was employed by the government. If there was a government funded line for “special assistant to R. Ovadia Yosef” of course that line comes to an end, and the person needs to seek new employment. What is shocking about that? The question is why was there a government job in the first place (as a perq to a retired chief rabbi?).
3. People with such jobs in all systems typically find similar work with no problem.
Give him a pension and benefits for work done in the past.
Why should the government budget pay for his services?
I hear. Legendary does make sense. And therein lies the difference between legends and myths.
To quote the legendary – er, mythological – Indigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think in means.”