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Dec 28, 2020
Quote of the Day
there were a few good quotes for today, but this one takes the cake. I am amused by how snide and snippy it is, and how demeaning and upsetting it is to so many people..
A city rav needs to first and foremost be an expert in halacha, not a security officer of some city or someone who learned in some hesder yeshiva..
-- Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchak Yosef
Rav Yosef later apologized, after many people got very upset about this remark as if the yeshivot hesder can't and don't produce talmidei chachomim... though in his apology eh did not explain what he meant to say - he just said that he respects and values the yeshivot hesder and is in torani communication with many students of these yeshivas through his shiurei torah and halachic discussions and apologizes if his words were not understood properly.
That means, it is your fault for misunderstanding him, but he won't bother explaining what he really meant.
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What was the context?
ReplyDeleteFar be it for me to disagree with the Rishon Letzion, but although a city Rav needs to be an expert in Halacha, he also needs to be a very competent administrator.
There have been cases of cities with a Talmid Chacham for a Rav, but Kashrut supervisors, the marriage registration process, cemeteries, maintenance of the Eruv and Mikvaot were not handled properly so that basic services offered by the Rabbinut were not being done.
from whatI read, he said this in his weekly shiur on Motzash. he was blessing a certain rabbi who was appointed as a neighborhood rabbi and commented on him being a talmid chochom and expert in halacha and blessed him to eventually get the job of city rabbi,.
DeleteOf course, Shas people- his people- get fake semicha ("With the permission of R' Mizrachi") and the accompanying jobs all the time, but it's all OK if they wear the right hats.
ReplyDeleteTranslation is simple: These patronage jobs should be reserved for Shas lackeys only.
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