Haaretz
Justice Minister Ya'akov Ne'eman on Monday said he believes Halakha (Jewish law) should be the binding law in Israel, Army Radio reported.
"Step by step, we will bestow upon the citizens of Israel the laws of the Torah and we will turn Halakha into the binding law of the nation," said Ne'eman at a Jewish law convention at the Regency hotel in Jerusalem, in the presence of many rabbis and rabbinical judges. [...]
YNet Clarification of what was meant
Justice Minister Ya'akov Ne'eman on Monday said he believes Halakha (Jewish law) should be the binding law in Israel, Army Radio reported.
"Step by step, we will bestow upon the citizens of Israel the laws of the Torah and we will turn Halakha into the binding law of the nation," said Ne'eman at a Jewish law convention at the Regency hotel in Jerusalem, in the presence of many rabbis and rabbinical judges. [...]
YNet Clarification of what was meant
Ne'eman is to be commended for making sense. At the present time, Israel's official legal system is mostly derived from archaic Ottoman-era law, because the Turks ruled Eretz Yisrael for 400 years, from 1517-1917, and upon British law, because the British ruled Eretz Yisrael for 30 years from 1917-1947.
ReplyDeleteJewish Law was also accepted by the Turks and the British and in fact it is the basis for much of Israel's marriage, divorce and even litigation laws whereby there is even an official state recognised religious legal system of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate that have always dealt with many aspects of law.
What Ne'eman is saying is that the secular courts will eventually wind down as the Jewish courts take on a leading and eventually the only role. Halacha is the most sophisticated legal system on Earth and can deal with any aspect of law.
So it's only a matter of time that Turkish and British law, that may be wonderful for the Turks and the Brits, is dumped by the Jews in Israel who have their own comprehensive system of law that covers every conceivable aspect of life, especially as the percentage of religious Orthodox Jews keeps on growing and who expect that Jewish Law should take first place, having no interest in being judged by what the Turks or the British may have left behind as legal detritus in the Holy Land that will now be justly thrown out.
There is nothing to fear, this is not going to happen overnight unless the Mashiach today comes of course.
By now, there have been untold numbers of shaylos and teshuvos, seforim, and ongoing piskei Halacha in every imginable field that has updated and expanded the scope of Halacha to cover every field, need, and subject.