State employee Ya(h)ir – (arrogant) Lapid, Who made you a judge?

Finance Minister Ya(h)ir (arrogant) Lapid posted a status this afternoon (Friday) on his Facebook page of rare severity, in which he used harsh words and foul language on the halachic decision of the chief rabbis, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef and Rabbi David Lau, against recruiting girls. Lapid demanded to dismiss the chief rabbis and announced that he will do everything in his power to dismiss them from office.

The first question that jumps to mind after reading the hallucinatory status of the minister is - who is Yair Lapid who can get rid of the chief rabbis? What authority does he have in his power to do so?

The answer is of course that he has no authority, and the first to know it is Yair Lapid himself. Rabbis are an independent body - at least just like Bg"z judges! Position of Chief Rabbis of Israel is sturdy and stable! No tweet or status can harm them.

My question is where is the separation of powers and independence of the judiciary that Yair Lapid does not stop singing their praises. Israel's chief rabbi's status is equivalent to the President of the Supreme Court. They share the rotating presidency of the Rabbinical Court. The principle of independence of the judicial system applies, just like the judges.

Now imagine a situation where an Orthodox politician would call for the dismissal of a judge because of a religious ruling he does not like. The first to jump, scream and post statuses on facebook is of course the Minister of Finance, who would explain that in a democratic state based on the rule of law it is inconceivable that following one or another ruling of the High Court that he doesn’t like, a politician could make a call to dismiss judges, ensuring publicly that he would do anything to incite them.

Forget the religious issue for a moment. In our eyes, the role of chief rabbis is not to bend the rule to fit the requirements of Lapid, but find it as was given to Moshe at Sinai.

But even compared to purely civil terms, even through Lapid's glasses, the chief rabbis, by actually expressing a ruling - just played their role of definition - to rule. As any judge in the civil courts sitting in court. In contrast, Lapid will not interfere in it, what relevance is that to the Minister of Finance and halachic issues? How can a politician intervene crudely the status of dayanim - just because he doesn’t like their rulings?

Does the Minister of Finance think that due to the power given to him in his capacity he can threaten judges and dayanim, by playing the exact role - to rule and subdue the halachic opinion?

If politicians interfere in the status of dayanim, it might be worth offering the dayanim to examine issuing a fatwa declaring that the economic decrees of Yair Lapid – which brings about Holocaust and the destruction of the religious institutions - are not consistent with Jewish law, and therefore it is their duty to fire him and remove him from office. I'm sure this matter will be a consensus among judges of Torah law...

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!