There are moments in history when a political decision stops being merely administrative and becomes a spiritual question. Not because it deals only with laws or institutions, but because it touches something deeper: how a people understands the sacred and its own identity.  The recent legislative move spearheaded by Avi Maoz, approved in the Knesset, granting the Chief Rabbinate authority over the egalitarian section of the Kotel and imposing criminal penalties for religious