JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In another embarrassing gaffe which exposed his ignorance of Jewish customs, Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid referred to people on Yom Kippur who were “wearing Tefillin.”
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In an official ceremony marking the 49th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war which broke out on October 6th 1973, Lapid described how “thousands of worshipers were torn from their shuls and forced to exchange their Talis for army uniform and their Tefillin for a gun.” Lapid was apparently unaware that on Yom Kippur, as on any other Yom Tov, Jews do not wear Tefillin.
Lapid continued and stressed that “they didn’t ask who is leftist or rightist, who is fasting or not fasting. The religious person who left shul and the secular person teaching his child to ride a bike fought side by side in battle.”
"רבבות המתפללים נקרעו מבית הכנסת ונאלצו להחליף את הטלית במדים ואת התפילין ברובה" – כך אמר @yairlapid בטקס האזכרה לחללי מלחמת יום הכיפורים@YeshAtidParty pic.twitter.com/pLPzk655Nj
— ערוץ כנסת (@KnessetT) October 6, 2022
Lapid added that just as we make a reevaluation on Yom Kippur of our actions, leaders must be ready to make such evaluations. “We need to ensure that our eyes are alert to every danger, that we are not beholden to dangerous conceptions, that we do not miss opportunities for peace and do not ignore warnings of war.”
A limmud zechus.
Demonstrates that he has the halachic status of תינוק שנשבה
His father, at age 13, saw his own father arrested and eventually killed by the Nazis, along with 11 relatives.
Like many holocaust survivors, he felt that the Jews had been abandoned and he therefore maintained a lifelong antagonism to religious Judaism.
And that’s how he raised his son, ignorant of Yiddishkeit, as we see here.
It’s the day after Yom Kippur.
Best not to judge.
Not a major fan of Lapid, but shouldn’t he receive the benefit of the doubt that he meant it metaphorically? Surely, he most have some basic knowledge of religious practices!
A gaffe…or maybe just a metaphor. And it’s just one part of a meaningful speech about achdus during a challenging moment in modern Jewish history. Im willing to overlook it.
B”H, must be a slow news day.
Nothing to do with judging liKaf zechus or any other way, but this is not a gaffe. He merely expressed the general situation they experienced. He didn’t explicitly claim they were wearing Talis and Tefillin that day.
Another limmud zechus:
Maybe he meant that they ran to the front without taking their tefillin for the next day. Which would in fact be the halacha, because there would be no heter to carry them nor bring them outside the t’chum.
It wasn’t a one day war obviously soldiers on the battle field over the next few month were not able to put on twfilin ever day
lapid is what reb uri zohar described regarding children being robbed of their heritage by the Zionists in his case his father “tommy” lapid was a true anti religous Zionist. even today more than half of Jewish children in Israel do not know the line of Shma Yisroel because of their Zionists education denying even basic knowledge of Yahadus.
This is absolutely lashon hara. I’ll
as usual, the guy in the picture is not wearing tefillin.
no hair grows on your forehead, people.
p.s. the reason why this stands out to me is because I did not wear tefillin for years, due to my grandparents buying me pasul tefillin.
Check yours, and learn the halachos.
““thousands of worshipers were torn from their shuls and forced to exchange their Talis for army uniform and their Tefillin for a gun.””
Sounds just like his Zionist shmad army…
I know in our tradition we don’t put on tiffilin on shabbos and yom tov, but in reality it should be considered a hidur mitzvah.
Hes a grubeh shaygitz. I wouldn’t expect him to know any better.