http://www.thejerusalemlife.com/news/r-aviner-torat-hamelech-intolerableR’ Aviner: Torat HaMelech ‘intolerable’
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, rosh yeshiva of Ateret Yerushalayim, says it it isn’t true that the police force has been conspiring against the Right.
“Anyone who wants to lead the nation in a certain direction has to be prepared for the fact that he’ll sometimes encounter difficult situations,” he said on Galei Yisrael radio. “But this, to say we’re persecuted, that’s not how we do things.”
Rabbis Dov Lior and Yaakov Yosef were recently arrested for endorsing the sefer Torat HaMelech, which permits the preemptive killing of a non-Jew by a Jew who feels threatened.
Regarding the rabbis’ arrests, Rabbi Aviner said he thought there could have been better ways to handle the situation.
“Differences of opinion are not resolved through making arrests,” he said. “If they [the police] really wanted to clarify the subject with them, they could have approached them to engage in [serious] conversation.”
As for the book itself, Rabbi Aviner called it “problematic” and criticized it for also permitting the killing of a secular Jew in certain circumstances. “These are things that cannot be tolerated,” he said.
“Even if the things [printed in the book] are correct, [the rabbis were] not correct,” he said. “But even if they had been correct — not everything you think should be said, not everything you say should be written, not everything you write should be publicized.”
