“Judge at your gates with truth and peaceful law”, after the historic ruling of the Supreme Court who for the first time disqualified a constitutional law drafted in the Knesset, the Head of the Ethics Center at Tzohar Rabbinical Organization wishes to remind all: it is time to pay back our debt of unity.
Many exalted things have been said in light of the events of Simchat Torah this year – we accept upon ourselves to speak differently, not to think that all the truth is found in one place, not to slander and shame, etc. Now it is time for us to pay up. This is the difference between “speaking about” and “doing”. This is the significance of the halachic world – to do, to speak less, to do.
After all the verbal attacks of: this is tearing the nation apart during wartime; this will save the soldiers from the Hague; a slight majority cannot nullify a constitutional law; a small majority cannot enact essential laws and claim them as constitutional; the death of the legal revolution; the death of democracy; stealing the voters’ mandates; all surveys show that you are a minority; etc. etc. etc.
Now we must pay it back. Recognize that all claims have some degree of truth, to sit together, to bring our positions much closer together, to remove the harsh expressions thrown at each other, to determine the path to defining a constitutional law and its judicial balances, to reach a consensus out of basic humility that all claims have truth and none of them alone carry this weight.
And we should return what should be in the forefront to our center of attention: the war in Gaza and the North; the hostages and their families; our joint desire not to go back to the place where before the war. And to better ourselves and the world around us.
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