{"id":98574,"date":"2022-11-20T02:16:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98574"},"modified":"2022-11-20T02:16:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:16:24","slug":"respect-for-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/respect-for-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Respect for the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Respect for the Law<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lawyer told me that he was in the middle of a hearing when his cell phone rang. Out of habit, he took the call. Immediately, the judge stated that he was fined five thousand shekel, as answering a phone call in a court of law is considered contempt of court.<\/p>\n<p>When I heard about this incident, I was terribly disturbed. Every day, we meet three times in Hashem\u2019s House of Prayer, a miniature Sanctuary. More often than I care to remember, I notice fellow Jews who have the audacity to speak with others or involve themselves with their cell phones. They are causing tremendous insult to Hashem and to His Sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>If, in a court of secular law, the cost for contempt of court is so steep, who knows how expensive it will be for one who made a mockery of a Beit Hakeneset?!<\/p>\n<p><em>It is our moral obligation to respect a Beit Hakeneset at least as much as we respect a court of law. Mundane matters should never be discussed there, and cell phones and other forms of communication must be turned off. As we stand in prayer, we must feel a sense of respect toward the King of kings, Hakadosh Baruch Hu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respect for the Law A lawyer told me that he was in the middle of a hearing when his cell phone rang. Out of habit, he took the call. Immediately, the judge stated that he was fined five thousand shekel, as answering a phone call in a court of law is considered contempt of court. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fear-of-heaven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}