Thursday, October 10, 2024

There Is Only One 'Supreme Court'....The Father....The Son....And The Holy Spirit

                        Israel does not have a constitution. Their Supreme Court can overrule their Knesset. Supreme Court judges are chosen from a nine member committee....from three segments of society....in a complicated process. In 2023....well before the October Sukkot attacks....the country was in turmoil as Prime Minister Netanyahu was making an attempt at judicial reform. You may remember the massive demonstrations from both sides?
                     We in the United States have a constitution. Our court is considered conservative. Israel's court is considered liberal. Our legislature can in effect overrule Supreme Court decisions. Our Supreme Court judges are nominated by the president but have to be confirmed by our Senate.
                     Israel originally intended to have a constitution but that never came about. In effect they have something similar to our Bill Of Rights....which is their fourteen....Basic Laws. They have the same divided country that we do....and consequently the same....packing the court....arguments.
                     Yom Kippur begins tomorrow....October 11....at sundown. The Orthodox element in Israel had a ceremony planned in one of the parks in Tel Aviv....and in that ceremony there would be the traditional gender separation. The Tel Aviv officials denied the required gender separation in public on an equality basis....(it's OK in private they say)....the group planning the Yom Kippur event took it to their Supreme Court....which ruled that the event could go on as planned.
                     Demonstrations were then planned against the Orthodox gender separated event....and the Orthodox group decided....to keep the peace at a holy Yom Kippur service....and as a war is in process....not to hold the event as planned.
                      Whether it is in America or Israel or England or Germany or wherever democracy is involved in the government....the strength of that government will be determined not only by the unity of the people....particularly the lack of a 50/50 division....but to what degree that people has remained a God-fearing people....and to what degree that people's....'god'....has not become themselves. In this respect....concerning God....we are now in an....'ice age'....giving the cold shoulder to anything pertaining to God. This had to come about for it is the natural course that man always takes. We are about to find out first-hand the natural course that God always takes.