In recent months there has been a growing number of summonses issued by inspectors around the country to Chabad shluchim asking passers-by if they wish to put on tefilin, but it turns out that not only are municipal inspectors in secular cities controlling items of kedusha, but this appears to apply in Bnei Brak as well.
According to a Ladaat News report, a number of avreichim who stood next to the Itzkowitz Shul in Bnei Brak seeking to raise money for Kupat Ha’ir, received a a warning from a municipal inspector to immediately evacuate the fundraising booth or be fined.
One of the avreichim is quoted telling Ladaat, “what can we say about inspectors in secular cities when an inspector warns us to remove the booth in Bnei Brak. What have we come to”?
Ladaat adds no response was available from the municipality.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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3 Responses
You mean that the inspectors didn’t buy into the idea that a donation to kaput hair will solve all the world’s problems?
I dont get the issue here. Either its a local ordinance or its not. Its easy to look up. If it is and its not enforced then u can expect it to be enforced at any given time just like illegally double parking in BP.
What has the world come to when people think they can set up a booth anywhere they please because they are collecting tzedakah?