An estimated 150 people took part in the weekly shabbos protest against Jerusalem City Hall’s operating the Karta parking lot on shabbos. This week’s event began at 5:30PM at Kikar Zupnik, making its way to HaNevi’im Street where protestors confronted riot cops who prevented them from blocking the street. As is frequently the case, shouts directed at police of “Nazi” were heard from among the protest participants. There were reports of rocks hurled at police and at least one store window was smashed as a result.
There were no reports of arrests.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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I ran into a photographer at another event on Motzash who was there. He told me the Shabbat demonstrations are getting boring and less photographers are showing up.
YOU YWN PEOPLE HAVE COMPLETELY LOST MY RESPECT! FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS I’VE BEEN TRYING TO GET THE MESSAGE ACROSS TO YOU THAT YOUR PRINT ICON DOESN’T PRINT THE PAGE AT ALL – IT COMES OUT BLANK. THERE IS NO EXCUSE IN THE WORLD FOR YOU TO FALSELY ADVERTISE PROVIDING ONE THE ABILITY TO PRINT YOUR CONTENT! WHERE IS THE YASHRUS? THE RIBONO SHEL OLAM WILL GET YOU GUYS FOR THIS. FIX THE PROBLEM, AND BE MENTCHEN!!!!! I’M SICK AND TIRED OF FRUM PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE PROFESSIONAL AND/OR CLAIM TO BE PROFESSIONAL LACKING IN THEIR EMES.
Baruch Hashem these True Torah Jews are escalating their Shabbos protests. Any true Torah-loving Jew knows that this is all well-rooted in our tradition.
Rav Yirael Meir Kagan was famous for screaming “Nazis!” at people who rode their horse on Shabbos. Didn’t he say in his famous sefer, the Chafetz Chaim, that you are permitted to say loshon hara about other Jews who are being mechalel Shabbos? Because, it’s well-known that saying loshon hara about them will bring them closer to Hashem & prevent them from being mechalel Shabbos in the future.
Rav Yosef Karo, in the Shulchan Aruch, describes at length the importance of chanting “Shabbes, Shabbes” in the streets of one’s community in order to make sure that those who are being mechalel Shabbos become aware of their mistake. He expounds on this to say that obviously the person who was riding his horse to the local soccer game just didn’t realize it was Shabbos – now that you’ve informed him, he will surely put down his beer, leave the ball game & run to catch a late Maariv.
By the way, some Kabalistic sources hold that one should yell “Shabbes” three times and alternate this with “Pritzus” and “Sheigitz” three times. I think there’s some kind of alternating formula that they offer – kind of like with blowing shofar.
Even a cursory reading of the famous Gemara in Mesechta Baba Meisa will show you that HaRosh Yeshiva Moreh D’Asra Maran Posek HaDor HaGadol HaDor HaRav HaGaon v’HaKadosh HaGaavad Moshe Rabbeinu, Shlita taught us that the only productive way to solve problems in the true Torah way is to block the roads so that the camels become grid-locked. Tosfot on that Gemara notes that an acceptable alternative is to plaster pashkavillim & grafitti across the sides of the donkeys that are parked in the stadium parking lot. Surely this will improve all of our d’veikus to Hakadosh Baruch Hu!
Which one of these Tzaddikim will pay for the broken window?
How much longer must this weekly chillul Hashem be tolerated?