According to a Kippa website report, “chareidi elements” have pressured at least three persons on the 48-member voting body that will elect the new chief rabbis of Yerushalayim. The report states three persons affiliated with the Bayit Yehudi party have been approached to vote for Rabbi Moshe Chaim Lau instead of Rabbi Aryeh Stern, promised that in return for doing so they would receive a private audience and a bracha from HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita.
The report questions the legality of such actions, adding that without a doubt the effort to persuade the voters is unethical at the very least. There is mounting pressure in the dati leumi camp as it does appear Rabbi Lau’s candidacy is gaining support and he does represent a threat to dati leumi candidate Rabbi Aryeh Stern
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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8 Responses
Wow a real live Bracha award!!!
Don’t they know you can visit on your own & get a brocha? Makes u think WHATS the bottom line here??? If the Charedim do not care a whit about the Rabbinate of Yerushalayim & do not avail themselves of its services….So why the heavy-handed attitude???
Bottom line $$$$$
Of course they care about the Rabbinate. They have always cared. Rav Yosef Chaim cared. Maharil Diskin cared. The Brisker Rav, the Chazon Ish, and the Divrei Yoel all cared. They cared that it stay in the hands of those in whose hands it had been for decades, perhaps centuries.
First Bayit yehudi and Barkat demand on putting women on the committee,then naturally they nearly disqualify the ones who might vote differently !, is all but ignored
#1
why do the datim care about the Rabbinate?
why do the you care about the Rabbinate?
It would easier , more popular,plus being $$$$$ advantageous, for Charedi Rabbanim to davka remain within their own communities or ivory towers.
After all the Rabbinate primarily is relevant for the traditional “follow the crowd” and/or “follow the cloth”.
I and lots of others shudder to ponder what could have happened if the charedim and charedi-inclined would have lost the country’s chief rabbinate in 2013.
But that is forbidden.
It is forbidden to live for ones self.
Shauli….
Rav Kook & Rav Frank zt”l also CARED!!
#6
Is this an attempt at being serious?
Could either candidate have the slightest of chances in today’s climate of garnering the majority of the dati vote?
Rav Frank zt”l (who is followed and adhered to on most issues almost entirely by the charedim ) wondered and often expressed sad regret for what was ensuing
“why do the datim care about the Rabbinate?”
#4: What kind of question is that? Datim are just a “frum” as you. That question smacks of real arrogance and a lack of Torah ideals. Please clarify your intent.