They aren't called money changers for nothing. They could be called battle axe masters, but nope.
The money changers, what would they be without money? Useless middle men I guess
I believe that to the jewish mind, a money-changer and a judge are the same thing. One of the 613 commandments of the Torah (paraphrased) says "never fuck with a scale, or God will be pissed". There's quite a few bits where the importance of judging properly is mentioned, usually in the context of a religious court, but sometimes in the context of day-to-day life.
I'm pretty sure in the religious jew's ideal world, every jew would be a rabbi and every rabbi would be a court judge.
Interesting take
What I do know is that they have a myth, about jews owning 2600 slaves each (not quite sure about the number, but I believe it's that) and that's when the messiah comes or when it's the end times to them
But yeah, understanding their "ideals", their end game, is quite important otherwise much of what they do doesn't make much sense, it's religious reasoning it spans over millennia and money is a means to an end. Now you also have faction, within the religious bunch; haredim for instance are anti zionists... Because the way the state of israel has been built isn't kosher essentially, it infringes upon their understanding of the religion and in turn it's a curse/doomed to fail
So who has the upper hand among all of them... Hard to tell, those with the biggest leverage I would say, for practical reasons. The biggest capacity to lend essentially, so not necessarily the most "orthodox" of them all. Because you have the religious zionist..
You have seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSy6ENVAJlY
Pretty interesting insights
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