معرفت ادیان

Discussing the political authority in the life of human society is actually the inspection of the owners of sovereignty and authority in that society. Although the emergence of Zionism and the formation of a state with the symbol of Jewish sovereignty, was a new start for this society, especially regarding political authority - of course with the veil of secularism - but the important question is that in the traditional Jewish text, what is the reality of political authority in terms of the roots of its authenticity and the limits of its authority? And what is the role of people in this case? This article tries to answer these questions, using a documentary-analytical research mehtod, and clarifies that the Jewish religion considers the original and essential sovereignty for God, so that without God's permission, no authority has legitimacy and authenticity. From this point of view, God chose the prophets and then their successors for religious and political leadership in order to manifest the Divine authority to the public, and then the different sects of scholars continued the series of the Divine authorized persons in the exercise of authority in the Jewish community. According to Jewish political thought, the role of the people is not to create legitimacy, but to give objectivity to the sovereignty of the Divine authorized people.