\u201cWhoever presides over a court of gentiles, and judges using the laws of gentiles, gives up the Torah of Moses, and is called wicked,\u201d said Rabbi Yosef on Saturday night. \u201cThey judge according to the laws of the nations, not the Torah. They accept testimony from women. This is against the Torah,\u201d continued Rabbi Yosef.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Yosef related an incident presented to him, in which a couple married with an Israel court judge as a witness. Rabbi Yosef ordered them \u201cto marry again, with a different ketubah. That ketubah is invalid. Why? He [the witness] is wicked, and incompetent to testify. It must be known.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey hate the Torah, so they are incompetent as witnesses. There is no doubt. Any judge that presides over a secular court is invalid as a witness. They must not be used to witness matrimony, to sign the ketubah. It is forbidden,\u201d said Rabbi Yossef. He went on to call such a marriage invalid, likening it to living in sin with a \u00a0prostitute.\u2026<\/p>\n
He made them marry again with a different ketubah.\u00a0 Because it was signed by an ORTHODOX Jew who was an Israeli court judge.\u00a0 And that signature was so tainted that the marriage it sealed was basically a prostitution arrangement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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For those of you unfamiliar with Yosef, he\u2019s more than just the leader of Sephardic Jewry.\u00a0 He\u2019s the puppet master holding the strings of Israel\u2019s Shas Party with its eleven seats in the Knesset and five government ministers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rav Ovadiah Yosef, spiritual leader of world Sephardic Jewry, just attacked one of the major bastions of Israeli democracy.\u00a0 He has labeled the Israeli courts \u201ca court of gentiles.\u201d\u00a0 That, apparently, is a very bad thing when you are a loyal Torah Jew like his holiness. FailedMessiah.com (from Haaretz which has a big ol\u2019 paywall) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,20,31],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentries","tag-haredim","tag-israel","tag-orthodox-judaism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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