Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem,HaRav Shlomo Amar sent an open message to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanahu on Tuesday asking him to protect the Kosel from Reform worshippers. Rabbi Amar called the worshippers “people who come to grind up and trampel the courtyard of G-d.” He also asked Netanyahu to safeguard the sanctity of Shabbos in Israel and said that these two things will save him from his enemies.

During a shiur that he was giving in Jerusalem, Rabbi Amar said: “No one can truly understand this, no sage in Israel can explain it properly I told them. I also told the Prime Minister, that if they had come and said that they were Christians, or a sect from India, then by all means let them pray. But they are Jews! If they weren’t Jews then their desecration wouldn’t hurt us. But they claim that what they are doing is what it is written in the Torah. It is a distortion and fabrication, and they are uprooting the Torah itself. At least those G-d fearing Jews who sit in the Knesset and in other locations will fight back.”

Rabbi Amar made reference to the recent challenges faced by the Prime Minister: “What is this? People fight the Prime Minister on every move he makes. I say to him: Protect G-d’s holy place and the Shabbos and G-d will protect you from those who chase you. He (Netanyahu) is doing very good things, and it would be sad if he would fail in the little things because he wants to pacify them (the Reform protesters). He should not fear them.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)