After the recent Jerusalem District Court ruling clearing the way for women to hold their own minyan while wearing tallis and tefilin at the Kosel, the Women of the Wall (WoW) organization released the following media statement.
“In light of the District Court decision on April 24, 2013 and after 24 years of monthly prayers at the Western Wall (Kotel), Women of the Wall will return to the holy site to pray with Torah, tefilin (phylacteries) and tallit (prayer shawl) on Rosh Hodesh Sivan, May 10, 2013. It is with great pride that the women, from diverse Jewish backgrounds, adopt the important ruling by Judge Moshe Sobel, and join for this joyous occasion.
“In acknowledgement of his plan for pluralism at the holy site, Women of the Wall share great respect and appreciation for Jewish Agency Chair Natan Sharansky and for his thoughtful, good faith effort to find a resolution to the conflict at the Kotel. We recognize the significance of this plan for an egalitarian section at the Kotel and commend all those who worked tirelessly together to reach an agreement that respects the great diversity of Jews in Israel and abroad.
“For the foreseeable future, Women of the Wall remains committed to praying freely as a women’s only group on the women’s side of the Kotel. Judge Sobel declared, as the group has maintained for the past ten years, that women’s prayer, with Torah, tefillin and tallit, is not a disturbance of the peace or a violation of the law, but a valid, civil right which women should be afforded.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Lets not get too upset about this.
The real chilul hashem is r”l the blue and white shmatahs (aka – flags) flying by the kosel. Women “davening” is just one of the eventual results.
Women “davening” is just one of the eventual results—-results of lack of commitment, education and yirei shamayim as found in many Women Pray Groups throughout the world.
i HOPE YOU DO NOT TRAVEL TO ISRAEL AND ASK THE [POLICE WITH THE SHMATAS ON THEIR UNIFORMS TO PROTECT YOU, OR THE MEMBERS OF TZAHAL WHO REPRESENT THE STATE WITH THE SHAMATAS TO INTERVEN WHEN YOU ARE ATTACKED BY THE ARABS. .MOREOVER I HOPE YOU MAKE NO USE OF THE ELECTRICITY OR ANY OTHER ITEM OR NECESSARY SERVICE FURNISHED BY THE ‘TRAIFA” STATE. PERHAPS WE WERE BETTER OFF WHEN WE COULD NOT EVEN GO TO THE KOTEL SO YOU WOULDNT HAVE TO SUFFER SEEING THE SHAMATA.. ACTUALLY IT WOULD BE BEST IF YOU SIMPLY STAYED IN YOUR OWN DOLLAD AMOT.
#1 Notglattakup W/o that “shmateh” flieng you woudnt be there tipush
א מזמור לאסף אלהים באו גוים בנחלתך טמאו את היכל קדשך שמו את ירושלם לעיים ב נתנו את נבלת עבדיך מאכל לעוף השמים בשר חסידיך לחיתו ארץ ג שפכו דמם כמים סביבות ירושלם ואין קובר ד היינו חרפה לשכנינו לעג וקלס לסביבותינו ה עד מה יהוה תאנף לנצח תבער כמו אש קנאתך ו שפך חמתך אל הגוים אשר לא ידעוך ועל ממלכות אשר בשמך לא קראו ז כי אכל את יעקב ואת נוהו השמו ח אל תזכר לנו עונת ראשנים מהר יקדמונו רחמיך כי דלונו מאד ט עזרנו אלהי ישענו על דבר כבוד שמך והצילנו וכפר על חטאתינו למען שמך י למה יאמרו הגוים איה אלהיהם יודע בגיים [בגוים] לעינינו נקמת דם עבדיך השפוך יא תבוא לפניך אנקת אסיר כגדל זרועך הותר בני תמותה יב והשב לשכנינו שבעתים אל חיקם חרפתם אשר חרפוך אדני יג ואנחנו עמך וצאן מרעיתך נודה לך לעולם לדר ודר נספר תהלתך
The flag with the Magan David on it is a sign of the in gatherings of the exiles in case you’ve been asleep for the last 65 years.
I don’t get it. Why would anyone want to bother putting on tefillin if they don’t have to? Welcome to indentured servitude, women who want to be more like men. I understand women are more spiritual than men, and want to pray with a torah, but tefillin?
Women putting on tefillin in the ezras nashim is the least of Israel’s problems. If Ha-Shem decides to destroy the zionist’s self-proclaimed (with much hutzpah) “Third Commonwealth” it is more likely to be due to all sorts of things done to women in Tel Aviv, or the budding war against the yeshivos, or the killing of thousands of Jewish babies by the zionists — not women who are slightly confused about halacha and wanting to daven like males.
#1 – Thankfully, the ‘Divrei Yoel’ paskened that it is forbidden to go to the Kotel – so you will never see the ‘chilul hashem’ in person.
I wish I could be there to make my personal machaah.
V’chol haminim k’rega yoveidu… v’hazeidim m’heirah siaker u’smageir v’sashmideim–B’mheirah b’yameinu!
I have come to realize that the moderators must be guys who are mispallel every day that the Medina should remain exactly as it is (i.e. treif).
Assuming that the government was run by shomrei Torah u’mitzvos and every Yid in E”Y became a ba’al teshuva, there would be very little to write about. And very few inane comments….
glatta_kup is clearly a person with no emunah – no hakaras hatov – no ability to see yad Hashem. We have malchus Yisroel for the first time in 2000 years & he denegrates the very symbol of that gift.Do you bother bentching after eating? After all if you are unable to see the hand of Gd in all things why would you bentch? I agree that Medinat Yisrael is flawed, not yet perfect – but if Bnei Torah refuse to involve themselves in Medinat Yisrael, they can hardly complain that the secular Jews have created a secular state! Shame on you glatta_kup – go read the parsha of the meraglim!
#11: that’s what’ll be when mashiach comes. This is merely the beginning of the geulah process. No one says the current situation perfect, but living In Israel as a frum Jew in 5773 is probably the best time or place you could possibly eish to live in, since the churban 2,000 years ago.