David Bar-Hayim

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Rabbi David Bar Hayim (born David Mandel) was born in Australia. He learned at the Merkaz Harav Kook yeshiva in Jerusalem for many years. He subsequently taught Gemara (Talmud) at the Yeshivat Haraayon Hayehudi of Rabbi Meir Kahane.

Currently he is the the head of the Shiloh Institute, the Deputy Av Beit Din of the nascent Sanhedrin and a member of the Vaad HaTorani ("Torah Council") of Manhigut Yehudit.

The Shiloh Institute is a Torah research institute that seeks to establish a Minhag Eretz Yisrael, religious customs and practises that reflect those of the pre-exile Jewish communities in Israel, rather than those of Babylon or Europe.

Rabbi Bar-Hayim lectures in the greater Jerusalem area and publishes articles in English and Hebrew on various web sites.

[edit] Halachic Positions

Rabbi Bar-Hayim has ruled that Israeli Jews, regardless of their origin, may eat kitniyot on Passover.

He has also proposed that when the first day of Sukkot falls on Shabbat, Israeli Jews should follow the Mishna and Talmud Yerushalmi's ruling and perform the lulav ritual anyway, and ignore the contrary ruling of the Talmud Bavli and of every halachic authority of the past 1500 years.^[1]