After all, Aryeh Deri is a Sephardic Lithuanian yeshiva student.
In the end, he is the 'farank' from Hebron.
And as such, he is in one of his greatest moments, perhaps I would even dare to say - the man has reached his peak and is now allowed to retire.
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Many mourned the bitter fate of the Shas chairman, who was 'struck by a blow' with the High Court's decision not to allow him to serve as a minister.
The great political commentators, the ones who know everything, explained that Deri was at the highest point in his life: a senior minister, with consensus as a mature politician, and generally the most powerful man in the government, and then Hayut and her friends arrived and cruelly took everything from him. They left him naked and bare.
But they didn't take one thing into account.
The appearance of the great Lithuanian generation at his home.
With all due respect to Prime Minister Netanyahu, whose arrival does not go beyond the political act, the sitting of Rabbi Baruch to his left, and Rabbi Berel to his right, is the real event.
Aryeh Deri, the Moroccan who immigrated from Meknes and endured countless verbal attacks, humiliations, and estrangements from the Lithuanian elite, sat at the head of the table at his home this weekend, with Rabbi Chaim Peretz Berman, Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevez, explaining that 'there is no substitute for him,' Rabbi Shalom Ber responding that 'his abrogation of the Torah is the Torah study of the rabbis,' and Rabbi David Cohen declaring that 'the entire public gives him the strength.'.
This is an end-of-days vision, and a stranger will not understand it.
Herein lies the essential gap between Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri and his predecessor Eli Yishai. Deri, like many others in the Sephardic sector who grew up in Ashkenazi yeshivahs, still see them as the reference group, the true, authentic, and equal Haredi. The personal identity of these people, their personal and social DNA, is made up of the Sephardic children who studied in yeshivahs where mythical figures served - the harsh Lithuanian yeshiva heads, the great overseers, graduates of the Slobodka method, and they, they just wanted to be part of this great story. .
Deri's home was also visited by great Sephardic rabbis such as Rabbi Elbaz, Rabbi Maya, Rabbi Yehuda Cohen, and others. I have great respect for them - great people - but they are not the story. He had already conquered the top of the Sephardic rabbinate five election campaigns ago. The elders of the Lithuanian yeshiva heads not only came to Deri's home, they allowed him to demonstrate his ability to conduct humorous 'small talk'.
And with whom? With Rabbi Baruch Mordechai and with Rabbi Berel.
Eli Yishai probably couldn't boast of these abilities. Neither could Guetta, and who knows, maybe not even Gafni.
Hayut may be able to fire Deri from his ministerial positions, what she didn't know was that she couldn't harm his Haredi-Sefardi-Lithuanian DNA.
In recent days, this has received the greatest reinforcements ever received by an ultra-Orthodox public figure.
