According to Ehrlich:
- Rav Dovid Yosef will be added to the council as a member. Sounds fine to me (not that he needs my approval).
- Rav Amar, former Chief Rabbi, will be offered a spot as a regular member. He is expected to refuse as the offer is demeaning and crafted in a way that he won't do anything but refuse. Sad that they are so vindictive, but I still don't care. The Council of Sages of Shas has little bearing on my life.
- Rav Shalom Cohen will be appointed as President of the Council.
This bothers me. Rav Cohen has shown himself to be an angry person rather than one looking to bring people closer and mend broken ties. Under Rav Cohen's leadership I doubt it will be possible to mend the shaky relations between Shas and the Dati Leumi - Rav Cohen has called them Amalek and other nasty things on a number of occasions. I wish they would choose somebody more loving and compassionate, somebody looking to mend relations rather than tear them asunder. He might be great in psak and Torah, I am not debating that. I am sure the other rabbis on the council are as well. For him to be appointed as leader of the council seems to me to be a bad move.
------------------------------------------------------ Reach thousands of readers with your ad by advertising on Life in Israel ------------------------------------------------------
