The Prime Minister of Israel who has the hardest and most pressured job on the planet, as he is responsible for a country who is under an existential threat 24/7 and surrounded by enemies who would love to carry this threat out to fruition and many are busy planning our destruction right now [!!], gets paid about 65 thousand shekels a month.
The President of Israel [don't confuse the term "President" with that of the US which is a real job] whose main job is to get Kavod [and enjoy all that money he gets every month] but has no political power or clout and [seemingly] no pressure, who doesn't have to make important decisions that will affect the entire country, the entire Middle East and the entire world, gets paid .... 75K - 10K more [!!!!!!!!!]. [To do what exactly??? And by golly - what does he do with all that cash???]
The Prime Minister was chosen by the people.
The President was NOT chosen by the people - just the 120 Knesset members.
So now the democratically elected PM has to beg the undemocratically elected President to grant him clemency so that instead of being constantly busy trying to keep himself out of trouble he can focus on doing his job which is ensuring the security and economic vitality and so much more for this country. This whole trial is really bad for the country. A PM needs to be focused on his job. If he is a criminal then wait till he gets out of office to prosecute him. [Unless of course he is not fit to serve. It is seems clear that whether one likes his politics or not - he is fit to serve. Is he a little corrupt? - Who isn't in secular politics?? It is all about Kavod, power, prestige, media attention etc. etc. If he took bribes in the past - keep a thousand eyes on him to make sure he doesn't in the future and let him do his job. Or get another PM in office and then prosecute].
The common denominator between the two of them is that both had grandfathers who were rabbonim [Rav Kook was Maspid BN's grandfather Rav Nosson Milikovsky (it is published and we have blogged it in the past) and Herzog's grandfather was a Gaon Olam and Tzadik Yesod Olam - ירידת הדורות on steroids] and both of their grandfathers are no doubt looking down from שמים with צער at their errant-deviant-recalcitrant-wayward grandsons who are not only עמי הארץ but quite religiously far from what their grandfathers wanted in their descendants. In שמים they are not impressed with titles - even fancy ones like נשיא or ראש ממשלה. What counts up there is Torah, Mitzvos and Yiras Shomayim.
Another common denominator is that according to the Rambam - both of them are disqualified from their jobs [and not b/c of expensive cigars or the like - See Hil Melachim 1-7].
As one Gadol put it - it is not דינא דמלכותא but דינא דליצנותא.
And of course we thank the רבונו של עולם that we are not under Arab rule, British rule, Russian rule, Nazi rule, or democrat [as in American blue] rule:-). This Banana Republic is much better than MOST alternatives. We also thank Hashem that we can live in Eretz Yisrael and freely keep His mitzvos!!!:-)!!!😊😘
WE WANT MOSHIACH NOW!!!
