Jewish MK pushes bill to insert Halakhah (jewish law) into Israeli Law

Sabba – The jewish law is already the cornerstone over which the jewish state is built while the Torah has been declared time and again as being the jewish state constitution.

But as the world is more and more aware that that jewish and democracy, jewish and peace or jewish and justice are antithetical, israel is forced to invest more and more time, money and resources in PR exercises to try and prove that she is not a lunatic state, that she is the only democracy in the middle east, that judaism is a religion of peace etc.

This new bill would  now allow  israel to stop this tiring and costly act. It will allow her to stop pretending that she is like any  western democratic state, allow her to come out clean and even brag that as the jewish state, she can only have a jewish law.  

With this new bill, any jew killing a palestinian or any non-jew, will never ever fear to face trial – even for it is only for show. 

With this new bill, we will no longer have stories such as the one reported below: “Israeli Psychiatrist: Main suspect in Abu Khdeir murder fit to stand trial, is only pretending to be insane”.

The question the article does not answer is what is happening in world jewry that they now feel ready, feel the need to openly apply the halakhah?

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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

An MK has proposed a bill to introduce Jewish law into Israeli legal proceedings.

The Hebrew Law Bill, proposed by the chairman of the Knesset’s Justice Committee, Habayit Hayehudi party member MK Nissan Slomiansky, will encourage judges to use Jewish law (halachah) in their rulings.

To help lawmakers make use of Jewish laws, Mr Slomiansky has proposed translating Jewish legal literature into modern legal language, saying that “there is a need to make Jewish civil law literature accessible to all judges”.

“Any judge who wishes to avail himself of this service will submit his question to the institute and it will prepare an answer based on Hebrew law,” Mr Slomiansky said.

An earlier version of the bill was proposed last year, but failed to win any votes due to its recommendation that judges turn to halachah in cases that have no contemporary precedent to guide their decision. In the revised bill, however, judges are urged to turn first to international law for guidance, and then to Jewish law.

Mr Slomiansky addressed fears that the use of Jewish law would lead to religious restrictions as a result of the law.

“The law doesn’t stipulate that everyone will have to go to the mikveh or cover their head,” he said. “There is no intention of educating anyone to become religious and lay teffilin. There is an answer for everyone here.

“A judge who is scholarly won’t need this law in order to draw inspiration from Hebrew law. An anti-religious judge won’t use this law since it doesn’t compel him to. However, most judges are reasonable people and may use Hebrew law, which is currently not easily accessible.”