Dayan Convention: A battle for the Beis Din's position

In a multi participant conference at the Ramada hotel in Jerusalem, hundreds of Dayanim, Rabbis of cities and neighborhoods, teachers and Bnei Torah gathered, at the annual meeting of the World Center for Torah Law, 'Halichot Am Yisrael', led by Rabbi Ratzon Arussi, of Kiryat Ono and a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council.

The conference was attended by Chief Rabbis of Israel, Knesset members and ministers, Rabbis from around the world and public figures. The conference this year dealt with taxation laws according to the Torah, the powers of the Tax Authority, as well as the obligation to pay taxes to help the weak in society, and hundreds of participants discussed the serious halachic issues.

At the opening of the conference Finance Committee Chairman MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni spoke, who said that the failure of the ultra-Orthodox and religious representatives in the Knesset is the subject of the passage of the law that gives courts the authority to discuss financial matters. "We put this issue clearly in the coalition agreement, and yet the government does not allow the law to pass because of public and unnecessary uproar.

"We need to realize that we in a culture battle, they do not want the Beis Din to have power. We won during the last term by not having any anti-religious law passed - and there is not a day that such laws don’t try to be passed. In the next Knesset the orthodox representatives will unite together and we will fight 'is this a Jewish state'. The struggle is the world of Torah, yeshiva students, the rabbinical world and the Beis Din."

Rishon Lezion Rabbi Shlomo Amar said: "We fight every day; we will not stop fighting for the status of the rabbinical courts. It cannot be that in a Jewish state two people want to litigate by their own free will in the Beis Din and they are not allowed to do so, while all over the world power is given to legislated arbitrators. There are many who want to remove the Beis Din, and are doing all they can to do so, and we will fight against any such trend."

Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman who took part in the conference, said that "the Torah has the answers to all the social issues we face today, and the solution to many of these issues is mutual."

Initiator of the conference - Rabbi Ratzon Arussi said that the 22nd annual conference for Torah law is designed to repeatedly reinforce and encourage those doing work for the issue of implementing law of the Torah in our lives, and not let those who want to weaken the courts and the Implementation of the Torah Law their will, "we must remember that there is no need to stray and look for the answers to legal laws and law around the world when we have the doctrine of G-d and the laws of the Torah, the Torah law should apply and the state must allow Dayanim in the Beis Din to discuss the civil law, a move which will ease the congestion in the courts and in particular will allow the vast public interested in doing so, to negotiate properly by Torah law. "

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!