The Western Wall has been the symbol of the holy Temple since its destruction by the Romans in 70 CE. Since that time, religious Jews have prayed to come back to it. After its liberation in 1967 the Western Wall (renamed from the Wailing Wall) has become one of the most highly-visited sites in Israel. Secular and religious Israelis as well as tourists from other countries make it a point to visit, to pray there, to feel in touch with their spirituality and to leave notes in the wall expressing how they feel. There is a rabbi appointed over the Western Wall and its plaza.
The only requirements imposed on visitors are that they wear modest clothing, broadly defined (a woman in a short dress will be given a shawl to wrap around her legs), that men and women pray in separate sections, that in the women’s section there are no organized prayer services, since in Orthodox Judaism it takes a group of 10 men in order to permit them to pray together, and that women not wear a tallit and tephilin, which by Jewish custom are deemed men’s garb, and therefore it would violate a commandment in the Torah for women to wear them.
The women of the wall are nothing more than leftist provocateurs denigrating the religious feelings and praxis of the thousands of visitors to the wall, making a public disturbance that prevents the other women in the women’s section from being able to lose themselves in their own spiritual journey.
Nevertheless, there has been a section of the Wall made available for them. Unfortunately, the women of the wall refuse to utilize that space, instead forcing their behavior on those women in the regular women’s section who want nothing more than to be left alone to pray in peace.
It’s part of the left’s war on tradition, and nothing more.
Like using CE for dates?
Thanks. In all the arguments I have heard, the rights of the other women praying at the wall were not mentioned. That is a very valid point, and after all the Women of the Wall were offered another section in the southern part of the wall IIRC. Which they hurried to turn down! It seems to prove my point, and I am a woman speaking, but when women start asking for “equal rights” in any religion, this (religion) is the least of their concerns!