Who Really Should Have Won The Israeli Elections

[Music] the results are in israel has a coalition government so broadly based that were you to stand at the left side of it you'd need a telescope to see the right and in between there's a vast floppy underbelly waiting to crash down on a hapless electorate and trigger the fifth election in two years at 29 032 feet above sea level mount everest is the highest mountain on our planet k2 the second highest mountain at 781 feet lower is 28 251 feet but if we stood at the foot of mount everest and looked up we'd see absolutely no difference between everest and k2 to us they'd look exactly the same enormous mountains but k2 knows that everest is everest and that it is only k2 rabbi not ashila once observed judaism is a democracy of opportunity and an aristocracy of opinion anyone can open up a talmud and start to learn but a self-policing system of peer approval validates only the most expert the most elevated and the most holy in 1887 the honourable john dalberg acton wrote power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely great men are almost always bad men even when they exercise influence and not authority there is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it [Applause] [Music] only someone who has spent his life enmeshed in the holiness of the torah in acting righteously and exercising self-control can rise above power's tendency to corrupt you