8 Responses

1. These מחללי השם בפרהסיא should not be released before Pesach. This entire movement is inconsistent with דרכיה דרכי נועם. These bochurim should either be helping their parents or hosts for Pesach, or sitting and learning. If they are sick enough to believe that being a public nuisance is somehow רצון ה’, then they truly need a lot of therapy. Either way, keep them off the streets.

2. So the eminent dayan, The Little I know, paskens that the punishment for disobeying דרכיה דרכי נועם is incarceration during yomtov. In which section of the Shulchan Aruch did the honorable dayan find this halacha? Perhaps your online moniker says it all?

3. No 2, u r right. The torah teaches us that no kappara is available for chilul hashem.

4. Deport them to Gaza.

5. Peleg – be ashamed of yourselves!

6. american_yerushalmi, tell me, in which section of your shulchan aruch does it allow to steal the time of thousands of innocent people, with the chance of injury or possibly death (if someone cant get to a hospital). Not only should these boys be in jail over yomtov, their leader should be tossed in with them. Enough is enough. Stop defending these bums. I doubt you would let your daughter marry any one of them.

7. #6: I am in no way advocating for Peleg’s actions. I am advocating an end to the vicious mudslinging against them from this website. They should not be demonstrating in such a fashion, and by the same token, all the self-righteous commenters (whom I am positive report every nickel of their income to the IRS. I mean if stealing time is bad, stealing from the govt. is worse.) BTW, this story about not getting to work, or ambulances to hospitals, etc. is not being reported in local media. I’m not saying it didn’t or couldn’t happen, but YWN and the indignant commenters from across the Atlantic Ocean don’t have any documented instances of this. As a resident of Jerusalem for nearly 40 years, I have watched the city expand. There are multiple paths, alternative routes, and even alternative hospitals if need be. So, again, while not condoning Peleg’s activities that may have caused people to be late to work, appointments, etc.– which they should NOT be doing == let’s not let our zeal for protesting “Chilul Hashem” (which, as we all know is the SOLE motivation for all the harsh anti-Peleg rhetoric…)get the better of us. Even though all the exasperated commenters are writing all their furious invective only to combat the “Chilul Hashem,” you are all fanning the fires of machlokes, sinas chinam, while blackening the name of all Chareidim in the process. Surely, those are not your goals.

8. Rabbi Aurbach should ask his students to remove their glasses and contact lenses so they will not be able to see all the ladies that are coming out of their cars and they are approaching the students that are sitting in the street and these women you can see very clearly that they are pleading with the students to please let their car go through. These women are not dressed properly. Maybe they should go to Meah Shearim and protest over there.