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What is the connection between singer Moti Steinmetz and MK Nir Auerbach?
The audacity.
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It is the common characteristic in my opinion of these two personalities. But not just impudence, but also audacity that perhaps stems from a lack of basic understanding of reality.
We begin with an adult - the genius of his people, Nir Orbach.
The MK from Yamina, as I recall, debated for many days whether to join Bennett's government, and then decided in the affirmative after attending a performance by two great luminaries - Aviv Geffen and Avraham Fried.
It turns out that the two rumor-mongers we have in our poor and weak generation chose to appear together, and Orbach was so moved by the connection between the two on stage that he quickly jumped into the government with Mansour Abbas.
Don't believe me? I had a hard time too. But he signed this text. Not with humor. Not with cynicism. You can check.
So far so good. Maybe not quite so good, after all it turns out that a member of Knesset in Israel is not one of the sharpened pencils in the pencil case, but this is the man.
But now the genius has also become a hypocrite.
In a post he published at the beginning of the new year, Auerbach explained that Smotrich should ask him for forgiveness.
Why? The unbelievable explanation is based on Rabbi Hanan Porat, zt"l, 'one of the leaders of religious Zionism who modestly combined Torah with a sense of the earth, knew how to settle in hearts but always with his feet on the ground. Now, Orbach believes that 'Rabbi Porat's house has been hijacked,' and hence: 'I wonder what Hanan Porat would think today... Bezalel Smotrich needs to ask them and us for forgiveness and pardon.'.
I'm not exaggerating, but I read it over and over again to believe that I was reading a text that he wrote, and not a parody.
Rabbi Hanan Porat, symbol of the 'Gush Emunim' movement, founder of the Revival movement, becomes a support for the srog MK who chose to cooperate with Isawi Frij and Ebtisam Marana? Rabbi Porat, a scholar of Torah, honest to the point of pain and a man raised above the people ('a little bit of light'), would suggest to Smotritz that he ask forgiveness from Auerbach and Bennett who gave the term 'liar' additional meaning?
I say openly, my own views are far from those of Porat Mizrahi and Marab, and in my opinion, Smotrich is nothing but a racist, but Orbach's audacity to use the rabbi's name - given his entry into the Meretz-Ra'am government - is truly nauseating.
Where does this audacity and boldness come from? From a bad place in the man's nose or from a complete disconnection from reality?
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The young Hasidic singer, with the heavenly voice, Motti Steinmetz, is apparently in the same department.
In the music video titled "A Shmitha'el'e Ga'uin" (The Shmitha Weeps, or the Shmitha Weeps), which he published in collaboration with the "Seventh Fund", the singer encourages farmers who choose not to work in their fields during the Shmitha year.
So far so good. Also a mitzvah.
But then, with audacity that is divorced from reality, the people of the Seventh Ray, with the help of the Nightingale, determine that the rabbis - the lights of the generations in the simplest sense of the word - who allow work in the field through the 'famous sales permit', are nothing more than 'unrecognized rabbis', and that anyone who acts in accordance with their rulings is considered a 'criminal.' The disgrace does not stop here and the equation continues to play out: the criminals are required to strike for sin and cry: 'We are guilty, we have betrayed.'.
No less.
Where does this audacity and audacity come from? From a bad place in the noses of Steinmetz and his friends or from a complete disconnection from reality?
In this case, the singer chose to issue a clarification statement that, "The video had no intention of harming any person or public, and he apologizes if, God forbid, anyone was hurt, etc.".
This clarification is beautiful and important, yet in my opinion ridiculous, not to mention irritating. How did you 'not offend'? And in general, is the discussion 'us', or the disdain shown for the straits of the land?
What can be done? In the message I sent to Mr. Steinmetz and the Seventh Foundation, I proposed the following wording: "We absolutely retract all the unequivocal statements about 'permit violators.' We ask, however, to encourage the [heroic] farmers who wish to observe Shmita without needing a permit.".
In the meantime, it turns out, they didn't adopt my proposal.
