Anyone living in a community in Yehuda or Shomron, or in areas of Yerushalayim for that matter, is too familiar with the seemingly never-ending wail of the muezzin, emanating from mosques in Arab villages. Many a complaint has been filed by Jews over the extreme volume, but by-and-large, authorities opt to ignore this under the guise of permitting Muslims to exercise religious freedom, give them a larger dose of that freedom than enjoyed by most shuls.
Veteran Chevron resident and activist Baruch Marzel has decided he has had enough, and is retaliating, with the sound of music. Marzel explained that Jews who use the Machpelah at night are compelled to wrap it up by 11:00pm while Muslims often hold weddings that continue into the early morning hours, until 2:00am or 3:00am. They are permitted to blast the speakers, as they do five times daily, and he is simply unwilling to tolerate the situation.
As such, Marzel rented a commercial sound system and vows to play Carlebach tunes round-the-clock, confident that he will succeed where Israeli authorities have not. The local Chevron Islamic community is already angered over the invasion of their sound space, and the leftist Yesh Din organization has already stepped up to bat, filing a complaint but Marzel has already told police he is not about to turn the volume down until the Arabs reciprocate with a similar gesture.
He hopes the matter will be taken to court, confident of a win, but for now, its Carlebach around-the-clock in the holy city of the Avos and Imahos, as Marzel undertakes another battle for a Jewish Chevron.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Merzel is kind of a nut, but this is a very batampte response. Who knows, maybe some of them will become chasidim of R’ SHlomo, z’l. If he really wants to scare them into submission, how about playing some Chazan Helfgot!
LOL!!! I wonder if R’ Shlomo up in Shomayim is laughing too?
The holiest of the holy, the deepest of the deep, our holy, holy brother is trying to mamash bring a little holiness to a desolate area of the Holy Land. (Can’t you just hear the nigun?)
Gotta love Baruch Marzel! Rav Meir would be proud!
Flatbush Bubby, I am with you…
Music emanating from the holy city of Chevron is super gevaldik, and Marzel is a tzadik gamor (#1 u r entirely off-base).
Baruch Marzel is NOT a nut. He is a man with Guts. Bitachon. I had the Z’chus to Daven with him once.
He is a real Jewish Hero. The Jews of Chevron Are the Toughest in the World. Guts. not Nuts. if the israeli government had any, we would be a lot better off… right on Bubby!
I can sympathize with Boruch Marzel.; but let me ask you, is this, the way to go? Do we really want to live by the sword? Can’t there be ANY goodwill relations with the Arabs of Chevron?
Don’t get me wrong, I support our right to live in Chevron, and these people living there, stretching out their necks deserve my thanks; but again can’t it be done in a BETTER way, with SOME goodwill accommodations?
Kol hakavod to Baruch Marzel!!
Maybe, maybe this midah keneged midah effort will work!
Agood year to all.
#8 BenMelech – To answer your questions in the order you asked them”
Yes. No. No. No. — These are the simple facts without any fantasizing.
#10 AinOhdMilvado; if so why was it written at that time, that Boruch Goldstein Hy”d was the local doctor treating the local Arabs and on good terms with them?
Carlebach music will probably drive the yishmoelim so crazy that they will run like the rats that they are.
Personally I would play Sefardi chazzanut, because it is our words to their music and the kedusha overlaid onto their klipa would convince them that we are am kadosh and that we are the ones bringing kedusha back to Chevron ir haavois.
#11 Listen to #10 about #8. #9 amen. #6 keep living up to your name. #4 Mega Ditto. #2 he’s singing Right along! and to all a Shana Tova!!!
will shlomo inspire the arabs to do tshuva?
#11 BenMelech – I think what Baruch Goldstein finally felt compelled to do points out the reality of the “relationship”. Yishmael is a “pereh adam”. Even if one would really want to, -can one sit down to tea with a wild animal?