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It was a morning of confrontations at the Kosel when a group of Women of the Wall (WoW) accompanied by members of Reform and Conservative Jewry arrived at the holy site on 2 Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan with nine Sifrei Torah in hand.
Speaking to Channel 2 News, Kosel Rav Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz condemned the violence, stating there cannot be violence or protests at the holy site. He added the violence involved only a small number of people.
Rav Rabinowitz condemned those who insist on actions viewed as provocative at the site, preferring to ignore the site allocated for egalitarian prayer, preferring to engage in a provocation during shachris on Rosh Chodesh.
Channel 2: This is not a fringe group but men and women from here and the USA who insist on their basic rights to pray at the Kosel.
Rabbi Rabinowitz: There is an area allocated for this. They are not interested in truly praying but provocation. Amid 1.5 million Jews visiting the Kosel during Tishrei there were on two groups numbering in the tens of Reform and Conservative Jewry.
Channel 2: The area allocated to them was not completed. How can they use it?
Rabbi Rabinowitz: The area is ready. The fact the floor is wood and not stone does not constitute ‘not being ready’. They have their area which does not interest most of Am Yisrael as was seen in Tishrei. We look bad in the eyes of the world as they see Jews fighting Jews. They are only interested in provocation and this is most unfortunate.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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4 Responses
He is right. It isn’t about prayer, it is about pushing a neged halacha liberal agenda. Had they truly been interested in tefila, then they would pray daily, not once per month!
Rabbi Rabinowitz is totally correct: They are not interested in truly praying but provocation.
Do these creeps pray during the week when they do NOT come to demonstrate at the Kotel? Do they really seek G-d?
NO! They are only interested in grabbing headlines through provocation.
They should be arrested for breaking the law and put in jail with Arab thugs…
SO WHY WERE THE POLICE PROTECTING THEM INSTEAD OF ARRESTING THEM?!
What is going on?Who gave the police orders to permit men into the women’s section to disturb our prayers and grossly vIolate our the status quo?
Reform & Conservative “practices” are not Jewish and these 2 groups are not “streams”, “branches”, or any other form of Judaism. They are made-up cults.