Israel’s Finance Minister Yair Lapid used his Facebook page to make a
public apology to God just before the beginning of Yom Kippur, the
Jewish Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish year.
Finance Minister Yair Lapid
Originally published at 9:46 pm CDT 9-14-2013
Yair Lapid Apologizes To God For Not Drafting Haredim – Yet
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Israel’s Finance Minister Yair Lapid used his Facebook page to make a public apology to God just before the beginning of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish year, the Jerusalem Post reported.
“I have what to apologize for, Master of the Universe, but not for mistakes we [the Yesh Atid Party] made, but for what we have not yet changed. As long as there is no civil marriage and public transportation on Shabbat because of people who think they speak in your name, we have what to change. As long as we have not completed the historic process of drafting haredim and enabling them to enter the workforce, we have what to change,” Lapid, who is also the Yesh Atid Party chairman wrote.
But Lapid didn’t stop there. He also apologized to God for the high cost of living for Israel’s middle class, the rampant poverty among groups of Israel children, for young couples who cannot afford to buy a home – and the difficulty small businesses have in this economy, and with government overregulation, to get successfully launched.
Lapid also promised God that he would improve the education system, help Holocaust survivors, and woul work to limit the power of the very rich who dominate Israel’s financial and investment markets.
And then he added, “[a]s long as our public discourse continues to be violent and shallow, purist, extremist, full of insults and devoid of listening, we have what to change. As long as our politics is cynical, headline-chasing and prefers televised fights to cooperation that brings results, we [all] have what to change.”
Lapid’s public Facebook posting made only hours before the beginning of Yom Kippur enraged many haredim.
“Even on Yom Kippur eve, a day that unites the Jewish people, Lapid decided to continue to spread hatred and sow discord among the sectors of the nation. This man is unfit to be a leader,” Member of Knesset Rabbi Ya’acov Asher of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism reportedly said.