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To Quantify the Qualify Family, Business, & Jewish Life Through the Prism of Halacha VOLUME 5779 • ISSUE II • PARSHAS NOACH • A PUBLICATION OF THE BAIS HAVAAD HALACHA CENTER motivated by venality is there- fore ineligible to serve on the The TO QUANTIFY council, just as he is ineligible on the THE QUALIFY to serve as a judge.1 Qualifications for Holding Public NATIONAL GOVERNMENT Bring the Parsha to Life! By Rav Yitzhak Grossman R. Zalman Nechemia Gold- Office berg is reported as having ve- Highlights of a shiur by Rav Yosef Jacobovits hemently insisted, based upon this position of the Terumas BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY: TILL WHEN? Ha’Deshen, that it is Biblical- פרו ורבו ומלאו את הארץ וכבשוה A major theme of the recent elections and nominations for Su- ly prohibited to vote for any preme Court Justices has been the assertions that the leading Be Fruitful and Multiply… (Breishis 9:1) candidates are “not qualified” due to deficiencies in tempera- [Israeli political] party that ment and character. contains “secular individuals What is the minimum needed to fulfill one’s Back in 2016, a feud erupted between rivals for the Democratic (chilonim) who desecrate the obligation? Or, more to the point: Can a person Nomination - Senator Bernie Sanders and Secretary Hillary Sabbath”, even the [ostensibly ever fulfill the obligation in its entirety? Clinton - over each other’s qualifications. The Washington Post religious] “Jewish Home” party.2 The Mishna in Yevamos cites a discussion be- declared that “Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified Similarly, R. Ezra Batzri main- to be president”, and Sanders retorted that “I don’t believe tween Bais Shamai and Bais Hillel whether one 1 tains that the Israeli Knesset’s that she is qualified”. There have been numerous assertions needs both a boy a girl to fulfill one’s obligation halachic legitimacy cannot be by prominent figures, as well as widespread public sentiment, or is it enough to have two boys. that President Donald J. Trump is not qualified: a survey found derived from the tuvei ha’ka- The Talmud Bavli is clear that their opinions are that 61% of respondents did not consider him qualified. The hal paradigm, since it includes Washington Post considers him “uniquely unqualified”, and a mutually exclusive; i.e., two boys according to members who are disqualified letter signed by 30 former Republican lawmakers declared him Bais Hillel is not sufficient, and vice versa ac- “manifestly unqualified”. to serve as tuvei ha’kahal due cording to Bais Shamai. In the remainder of this article, we turn from the temporal to to sinfulness.3 R. Batzri never- the eternal, and discuss some of the halachic rules governing theless grants the Knesset le- The Yerushalmi – quoted by the Rashba - im- qualifications for holding public office and voting on questions gitimacy under the principle of plies otherwise: both Bais Shamai and Bais of public interest in general. dina de’malchusa dina (“the HiIlel agree that either of the two situations are sufficient. 1 Sanders repeated the charge, but subsequently retracted it. law of the government is the law”), which he argues is not af- The Maharit’s first wife bore him only LOCAL GOVERNMENT fected by the sinfulness of the sovereign.4 boys, yet he did not remarry. How The Terumas Ha’Deshen was asked about a do we understand this in certain individual who had been caught tak- 1 Shut. Terumas Ha'Deshen pesakim ve'kesavim #214, cited in light of the well known Darkei Moshe choshen mishpat beginning of siman 163, and ing a false oath, and had been assessed various codified in the Hagahos Ha’Rema at the end of siman 37. dictum that we penalties for his offense. The community had 2 Yishai Cohen for Kikar Shabbat, Harav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg follow Bavli Romez: Yesh Isur Torah Le'Hatzbia Le'”Habayit Ha'Yehudi”, 10 Adar spotlight settled with him and now wished to appoint 5775. I have not found independent confirmation of this report and over the am uncertain of its accuracy. him to the local governing council (tuvei ha’ka- (continued The Kollel Zichron 3 R. Batzri rejects the view of Shut. Yaskil Avdi chelek 6 choshen on back) hal), despite his failure to accept upon himself mishpat siman 8 os 2 that takes for granted that the elected Gershon L’Dayanus members of the Israeli Knesset “are not worse than the seven now to begin the halachos Terumas a proper course of repentance. The tuvei ha’ir”. The Yaskil Avdi does not address the question of of ribbis-interest and usury. disqualification due to sinfulness. Ha’Deshen ruled that he was ineligible for such Although it is not in Choshen 4 Dinei Mamonos chelek 4 sha’ar 1 chapter 9 n. 10. This view an appointment. He established the doctrine Mishpat; it is a staple of business that the sinfulness of the sovereign does not vitiate the related halacha, and the Bais HaVaad is that the governing council has the status of a proud to provide a heter iska that is binding (continued on back) court (beis din), and one who commits a sin both in bais din as well as a civil court of law. Don’t miss our upcoming Business Halacha Journal topic on Ribbis. Don’t yet receive it? Visit www.thehalachacenter.org/signup, call us at 1.888.485.VAAD(8223) or email us at [email protected] R. Shmuel David Ha’Cohen Munk, on the oth- atives of a candidate for (rabbinic) office should er hand, maintains that the principle of dina be barred for voting in the election for the po- de’malchusa dina does not apply to the sition. He concludes, however, that relatives The contemporary Knesset due to its members’ are indeed eligible to vote.7 5 moral or religious shortcomings. R. Elazar Meir Preil also notes the implication in of the Chasam Sofer’s ruling that even citi- CITIZEN-ELECTORS zen-electors are held to the same standards In a remarkable ruling, the Chasam Sofer Bring the Daf to Life! as judges, and he considers this a decisive ar- apparently extends the principle of the Teru- gument against female suffrage: since women mas Ha’Deshen to ordinary citizen-electors. cannot serve as judges, and citizen-electors He was asked about a community that had are held to the same standards as judges, ergo מסכת מנחות -held an election for the position of rabbi. Sub women cannot have the franchise.8 sequently, scandalous allegations emerged that some of the voters had been bribed to FEMALES vote in the interest of one of the candidates. R. Preil raises the same objection from a wom- This Week's Topics The Chasam Sofer ruled that insofar as these an’s ineligibility to serve as a judge, combined allegations have been conclusively estab- with the ruling of the Terumas Ha’Deshen RAV YEHOSHUA GRUNWALD lished, the vote is void. One of his arguments that holders of public office are held to the RAV MOSHE ZEEV GRANEK is from the ruling of the Terumas Ha’Deshen: same standards as judges, to a woman hold- since the tuvei ha’kahal have the same qual- ing public office (although he subsequently ifications as judges, and a judge who accepts raises the possibility of the community’s right A Numbers Game דף ס”ג a bribe is thereby disqualified, the same ap- to waive her ineligibility).9 This argument for Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbos דף ס”ד plies to the tuvei ha’kahal – and, apparently, women’s ineligibility to hold public office 6 to ordinary citizen-electors. was also raised by R. Preil’s contemporary, R. Without Intent Taanis Esther: Minhag or דף ס”ה The Chasam Sofer apparently understands Aharon Levine (the Reisher Rav).10 that even citizen-electors have the same Takanah? Days & Weeks: One Mitzvah or דף ס”ו -qualifications as judges when voting on pub 7 Teshuvos R. Eliezer siman 4. lic questions. R. Eliezer Gordon of Telz notes Two? 8 Sefer Ha'Maor beginning of siman 55. Female suffrage and The Measure for Separating דף ס”ז this implication of the Chasam Sofer’s ruling, the related question of women's eligibility to hold public office were intensely debated topics among twentieth century Torah and initially suggests that, consequently, rel- scholars, paralleling the contemporary debate in general society; Challah דף ס”ח .in addition to R. Preil's lengthy treatment of the questions, see R David Zvi Hoffmann, “Chavas Da’as al Odos Bechiros al Yedei Nashim Seeing the Light דף ס”ט applicability of the principle of din de’malchusa dina is also the U’Bechirasam al Yedei Acheirim”, in Ha’Kibutz Be’Halachah (Asufas position of Shut. Yechaveh Da’as chelek 5 siman 64 and Shut. Be’er Maamarim), pp. 286-87; Malki Ba’Kodesh chelek 2 teshuvah 4; Shut. Food Created Through a Neis Sarim chelek 6 siman 90 os 4, and cf. Shut. Netzach Yisrael siman Mishpetei Uziel chelek 3 (choshen mishpat) siman 6; Shut. Seridei Eish 33 os 9. chelek 2 siman 52 s.v. ve’al devar zechus ha’bechirah le’nashim and chelek 3 siman 105. 5 Shut. Pe'as Sadecha siman 91 os 1. See also R. Yehudah Silman's uncompromising views in Darkei Ha’Choshen pp. 394, 396. 9 Sefer Ha'Maor ibid. s.v. u'venogea le'ha'she'eilah ha'sheniah. 6 Shut. Chasam Sofer choshen mishpat siman 160, cited in Pischei 10 Shut. Avnei Cheifetz siman 1 os 6 s.v. u've'makom acheir. Teshuvah choshen mishpat siman 8 s.k. 2. Yerushalmi? Yerushalmi given the ‘support’ of the Zohar.
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