Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman, MK Avigdor Lieberman, published a post today (Friday) on his X network account, under the title "Live and let live," and wrote about life alongside his wife Ella, who is observant of the commandments.
""My wife Ella and I have been married for over four decades," he wrote. "She is religious and I am secular. She observes Shabbat, and I maintain a tradition of playing tennis with friends on Shabbat.
""On Friday evenings we customarily make Kiddush and read the weekly Torah portion. We live in the Nokdim community, which is home to Haredim, religious and secular, who coexist side by side in harmony and mutual respect.".
He said, "This is my vision for the entire State of Israel: a state in which every man and woman will live in their faith. Not on the basis of coercion and narrow politics, but out of tolerance, mutual guarantee, and shared destiny. Shabbat Shalom.".
The one who responded to him was the rabbi of Yisrael Beitenu, Levi Edrei: "My dear friend Yvette, you are not 'secular.' You are Jewish.
""We are standing in the days leading up to the day of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's jubilation, who loved every Jew without conditions or boundaries, and was careful to say that there is no such thing as a 'secular Jew.' There is a Jew - a son of the Holy One, blessed be He. There are Jews who observe more, and there are those who observe less; there are those who study more Torah and there are those who have not yet had the privilege of tasting its sweetness.".
""But the very Jewish soul never begs. A Jew is always connected to tradition, to faith, to his roots, even if sometimes it is hidden from view. Happy and blessed Shabbat!""
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