[Avodah] Badatz Denounces Violent Demonstrations

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:24:37PM -0400, Meir Shinnar wrote:
:: the RZ position has that the government has the status of melech...

[Me:]
: That is A RZ position... There are other
: forms of RZ than R's Kook messiano-Zionism. Most of them would
: disagree with this assertion...

On Fri, August 10, 2007 9:27 am, Rich, Joel wrote:
: So in this formulation who would have the responsibility for
: maintaining the social order in Israel today?

I think they would argue that the gov't qualifies as either tuvei
ha'ir, or if tuvei ha'ir requires that they be observant, perhaps dina
demalkhusa.

But not din melekh.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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