Shimon Baadani - Hell to those who don’t vote Shas!

Hell to those who don’t vote Shas!

Context

In early America there were many instances of clergy threatening damnation to those who supported a particular political point of view. However, that became quite rare and flared up in the early 21st century in America with abortion and a few Catholic Bishops. Generally democracies have a certain degree of separation of church and state. Israel, although a Jewish state, is very much a secular state but does have religious parties. One of them is the Shas orthodox Jewish party. But this statement even shocked most Shas members. Shas lost the election by far and remained a small minority party despite the Rabbi’s threats.

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Shimon Baadani, Israeli Rabbi & Member of The Shas' Council of Torah Sages, Sermon, Jerusalem, Quoted in The Pluralist, March 20, 2006

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About the Author

Shimon Baadani

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Biography

Shimon Baadani (Hebrew: שמעון בעדני‎, born 1928), also spelled Shimon Ba'adani, is a leading Sephardi rabbi and rosh kollel in Israel. He is the co-founder and dean of Kollel Torah V'Chaim in Bnei Brak, and serves as president of dozens of Torah institutions. He is also a senior leader of the Shas political party and a member of that party's Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah rabbinical leadership council.

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