HaGaon HaRav Yosef Yitzchak excoriated former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak for an interview he in which he stated that he doesn’t believe in Hashem. Speaking at his weekly shiur on Motzei Shabbos, HaRav Yosef said: “Aharon Barak was asked on the radio: ‘Does Hashem exist? Do you believe in Hashem?’ He responded. ‘No, there’s no G-d. I don’t believe.’ When they came to put on tefillin on him, he didn’t know how to put on tefillin and at the age of 86, he didn’t know how to say ‘Shema Yisrael.'” Referring to Supreme Court judges, HaRav Yosef added: “They’re the continuation of the Haskalah generation, they’re the successors of Mendelssohn, Bialik and their friends, they distanced thousands, tens of thousands, from religion.” HaRav Yosef then slammed Barak for interfering in matters of religion. “The president of the Supreme Court would interfere in religious matters in various cases. How are you connected to religion? A court is supposed to discuss whether a person drove through a red light or built without a license – why are you interfering in religious matters when you don’t believe in Hashem?” HaRav Yosef also referred to the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2020, forbidding hospitals to ban the entry of chometz into hospitals on Pesach, which led to the current government advancing the Chometz Law, which was passed in its first reading in the Knesset last month. “Why are you interfering with chometz in hospitals?” HaRav Yosef said. “Then they yell religious coercion – he made the mess, and then they say religious coercion. He interfered  and that’s why we need the law.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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