The Chief Rabbi of Israel, the first Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, this evening launched a sharp attack against the former President of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, for his interference in religious matters despite his lack of faith in G-d.
According to the report on the ultra-Orthodox website ‘Kikar HaShabbat’, during his weekly lesson at the ‘Yazidim’ synagogue in Jerusalem, Rabbi Yosef said: “Aharon Barak was the president of the Supreme Court. He was asked on the radio, ‘Is there a God? Do you believe in God?’ He answered that ‘there is no God, I don’t believe.’ They put a tefillin on him, he didn’t know how to say ‘Shema Yisrael’, isn’t he ashamed? An 86-year-old does not know how to say ‘Shema Israel’, is that Jewish? are you an infidel Don’t know how to say a verse of ‘Shema Israel’?”
The chief rabbi went on to say: “What does it mean not to believe? Belief in the Holy One, blessed be He, is our foundation, they are the successors of the Haskalah generation. It was not just that thousands and thousands were transferred here to religion. All kinds of people would come here with wigs, they would cut off their wigs.”
The First LeZion added: “This, the president of the Supreme Court, would interfere in religious matters. What does this have to do with you? Why are you interfering in religious matters? What are you interfering with leaven in hospitals. He made the mess and then says ‘religious coercion’, what You interfere? You don’t believe in God at all, you don’t know the verse ‘Shema Yisrael’, shame and disgrace, an 86-year-old man doesn’t know the verse ‘Shema Yisrael’, he will interfere with you in all matters of recruiting yeshiva students.”
“All the problems of religion in the country, what happened here, is because of these people, these heretics,” concluded the first of Zion.