Gafni was sceptical: Should we not be allowed to go home to light Hanukkah candles? • Watch

December 15, 2020   

The chairman of Degel Hatorah, MK Moshe Gafni, delivered a speech in the Knesset plenum today (Tuesday) on the miracle of the holiday of Hanukkah as part of the "One-Minute Speeches." The speech lasted, for a change, about 4 and a half minutes, with the Knesset speaker elated by the words. Aharon from Beit Shemesh receives 6,400 shekels every month because of depression. Maybe you deserve it too?  ""Today we are on the holiday of Hanukkah, where we thank God for the great miracle, and we also say in prayers, 'for the miracles and for the deliverance,'" Gafni began. "And I ask, Mr. Chairman, what do we thank God for, for delivering many into the hands of a few, which is a great miracle, two armies, one many and one few, there are more soldiers and fewer soldiers, and those who win are those who have less, this is a great miracle. But what is the miracle in this, that you delivered the impure into the hands of the pure and the wicked into the hands of the righteous? "The same army, the same tanks, the same planes, the same missiles, the same thing, only these are wicked and these are righteous, these are impure and these are pure, what is the miracle in this? They won because they won the war. It is not many into the hands of a few, it is not heroes into the hands of the weak - this is a great miracle. "The answer, Mr. Speaker of the Knesset, gentlemen members of Knesset, the answer to this is that when there is some kind of struggle and one side is the wicked and one side is the righteous, and the righteous win, it is a great miracle. "Why? Because the wicked resort to methods that are unacceptable methods. They do whatever they want, whatever they want, the main thing is to win. They are not interested in there being procedures, there are rules of the game, there are things that they do not do - and here, in this reality, it is a reality that the righteous win - it is a great miracle. Even though they have red lines, lines that they do not cross. They do not do things that the wicked do. "I want to tell you, Mr. Speaker of the Knesset, and with this I end - I understand that I do not have all the time in the world, otherwise I could continue talking..." Yariv Levin: That's right, you no longer have any time at all, I have already added seconds to you for the number of years you have been in the Knesset... Gafni: "I am ending, I want to tell you, Mr. Speaker of the Knesset, I do not know, I was in the Finance Committee today, I do not know what happened. But they told me when I left that tomorrow was going to be a long day here. The Knesset works for the many in the hands of the few, there is a majority and there is a minority, as exists in a democratic regime. But it has never happened before! And I remember the Knesset for 32 years! There was no such thing as a union between the many and the few, between the coalition and the opposition, to allow people to go home to light Hanukkah candles! Yariv Levin: Gafni, I received the letter from both the chairman of the United Torah Judaism faction, MK Yitzhak Pindros, and the chairman of the Shas faction, MK Malchieli, and I am aware of the issues and I hope they will resolve them. Gafni: "Mr. Chairman, I don't remember anything like that. We are talking about a Knesset in a Jewish and democratic state... Yariv Levin: I don't remember either. Gafni: I have to go to Bnei Brak to light candles. The meaning of the matter is that something dramatic has to happen for me not to light Hanukkah candles at home. There is no such reality! And there was no such reality. I simply want to explain, not explain? Smiling: We opened the Finance Committee meeting with a prayer for the recovery of our friend David Ben Margalit, and if the chairman allows me, I am willing to expand on Hanukkah...