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Shabbos Tefilla Rally Planned To Protest Chilul Shabbos In Kfar Saba


1A musaf rally is schedule to take place this Shabbos, Parshas Balak (in Israel) opposite a new Kfar Saba shopping center that is opening its doors on Shabbos. The public tefilla rally will take place opposite the mall.

Yated Neeman reports the new “Oshiland” Shopping Center in the Bilu complex offers attractions for children as well as shopping; a four-story complex with many stores, cafes and major food court.

Kfar Saba regulations prohibiting operating the mall on Shabbos and first-time violators receive a NIS 600 fine and if the violation persists, the fine increases NIS 24 with each violation. However, it is reported Mayor Yehuda Ben-Chamu has promised store operators in the mall that the Shabbos law would not be enforced.

There are a number of other shopping centers in the city, which do not operate on Shabbos.

Roi Lachmanovitz, who heads the Shabbos Equality coalition, explains there are many religious and non-religious store owners in the city, all wishing to earn an honest livelihood. Among them are religious owners who observe Shabbos, and there is the common denominator that unites them all, the desire not to lose the day of rest. He calls on the store owners not to open on Shabbos.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)



3 Responses

  1. What’s a mussaf rally? Walking out of shuls and davening in public on a Shabbos to protest something? This is wrong, wrong, wrong for several reasons. Rally on a Sunday or Thursday, try to negotiate, voice disapproval, but not on Shabbos. Who authorized this spectacle which could lead to chillul, humiliation, and farshmutzing Shabbos and frum Yidden?
    Yutzu sechoro behevseido 10x over.

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