Sanhedrin

Who will be first? William.

So 2005, we saw the startup of a Sanhedrin, Nascent, And I'm wondering, do you have any information about where they stand in all of this and what they're ready to do, if anything?

Okay, well, good.

Well, Rav Shirky has a close relationship with that Sanhedrin.

And, you know, there are rabbis, you know, one way or another who vehemently disagree with it or agree with it one way or another.

But that's not my, that's not our shtick.

That's not my concern.

However, my rabbi, Rabbi Avraham Ben Yaakov, who lives in, um, spot, uh, he's connected with that circle of rabbis, which would include Rabbi Shirky and Rob, uh, Rob, um, help me here, Dan, um,

And Martin Luther's elector, Elector John, commissions Luther to kinda get together with his, his buddies that help him with these things.

Luther called them his Sanhedrin.

This would be people like, uh, Justus Jonas, Bugenhagen, Philip Melanchthon, to come together and to sort of like put forward positive articles of the faith to be presented there.

Now, this is politics, so as often happens in politics, they put some articles together.

How can it be that they learned kol haTorah kulah?" What-- And, and the...

So he thinks they must have come with pointed questions, like when Napoleon appointed his Sanhedrin.

So he had specific que-- had a list of specific questions that he demanded that the members of his Sanhedrin should answer.

If a Jew...

Is a Jew allowed to marry a non-Jew? Is a Jew allowed to take interest from a Jew? Is a Jew allowed to take interest from a non-Jew? He had specific questions to know whether the Jewish religion discriminates, uh, between the Jews and the non-Jews.

And Martin Luther's elector, Elector John, commissions Luther to kind of get together with his, his buddies that help him with these things.

Luther called them his Sanhedrin.

This would be people like, uh, Justus Jonas, Bugenhagen, Philip Melanchthon, to come together and to sort of like put forward positive articles of the faith to be presented there.

Now, this is politics, so as often happens in politics, they put some articles together.

The Chinese will say their piece.

The Africans are saying, "We want also to sit at the Sanhedrin, which is the higher body where we have veto powers.

We want two positions." But the question is, does this not tell us that the time to reform the UN is now? And the word reform sometimes is bandied around with the consequence that it may even lose its true meaning.

But it would appear to me that almost about over 80 years since the Second World War ended, memories are selective.