Yesterday, Israel Prize laureate Rabbi Yitzhak David Grossman arrived at the President’s House to receive from the Honorable President of the State, Yitzhak Herzog, the letter of appointment as a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council.
In a special and honorable position, he received the recognition for his many years of work for Israeli society, his activity to bring hearts closer and the unity of Israel, and of course, becoming the elder of the rabbis on the Chief Rabbinate Council.
The President praised Rabbi Grossman for being a unifier and encompassing all parts of the nation, and even asked him to join the unity initiatives of the President’s House.
On this occasion, the Rabbi seized the opportunity to call for unity, which is so needed today in Israeli society: “Today, Rosh Chodesh Sivan, is a day capable of unity. On this day they came to Mount Sinai, and when they came to the mountain it was said, ‘And He made the name of Israel,’ and Chazal taught that it was written ‘And He made the name of Israel,’ and not ‘And He made the name of Israel,’ ‘as one man in one heart.'”
Rabbi Grossman added: “We are all Jews, there are no religious and secular, there are no Ashkenazim and Sephardim, we are all brothers and ask the Creator of the worlds, ‘Bless our father, all of us as one together.'”