PHOTO LINK BELOW: Sadly, it appears that there may be another escalation in the battle against shmiras shabbos by chiloni anti-shabbos elements in Yerushalayim.
As is the weekly custom, chareidim already adorned in their shabbos clothing and shtreimals visit “The Shuk”, Machane Yehuda, shortly before shabbos, blowing a shofar and announcing the imminent arrival of the holy day, seeking to increase shopper awareness that shabbos is rapidly approaching and shoppers and vendors alike should head home.
This erev shabbos, the scene was quite disturbing, as a small group of secularists came, some wearing multi-colored Purim wigs, armed with flutes, whistles and anything that can produce sound, following the shabbos-announcers and seeking to interfere with their message, openly ridiculing them for their efforts, and most disturbing, mocking the arrival of the holy day.
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(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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6 Responses
theyre showing themselves (the chilonim) to be a bunch of clowns
This is a clear backlash against the Shabbos protests of the Chareidim. Eizehu Chacham, Haro’eh es Hanolad.
an Israeli Yid
give the secularists hugs and invite them home for shabbos
The real clowns here are the so called frum people in the pictures.
# 3 is spot one!
Put yourself in the picture
Without the usual editorializing from Mr. Spera, this boils down to a group that he disagrees with (as does most of YW) merely exercising the same rights as the charedim.