Female Israeli soldiers disciplined after posing dressed only in underwear and combat fatigues
Posted on 06/03/2013 7:07:31 AM PDT by Nachum
Threatening letters were sent Monday to the offices of Chief Rabbis Shlomo Amar and Yonah Metzger. The identical letters said that this was the Chief Rabbis' “last chance” to drop their opposition to allowing women to pray freely at the Western Wall.
The letters included threatening language and images. A drawing of a gun was scrawled on the letters. The text said that if the rabbis did not allow women – specifically "Women of the Wall" – to pray at the Western Wall as they wished, the rabbis “would return home with the dead bodies of hundreds of hareidi Jews.”
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
allowing women to pray freely at the Western Wall.
__________________________________________
I am a woman..
In 1988 I went to Israel,
I went to Jerusalem
I went to the Western Wall...
and
I
prayed
freely...
And you still can.
How come these women believe they cannot?
Sounds like the palestinian terrorist morons have nothing better to do with their time than send threatening letters to Rabbis.
“How come these women believe they cannot?”
Oh they can. They just to institute their form of prayer there, replacing the will of the Rabbinate of Israel.
“Let us be religious or we will kill you.”
Makes sense, eh?
Is it because they want access to the whole wall, instead of the portion for everyone? When I was there in 1988 and 1994 part of the wall was roped off and not accessible to just anyone. Just wondering, not agreeing with these women.
Guess I should have read the entire article first...it said they want “the equal right to pray out loud next to the Western Wall with tallit and tefillin as men do.”
Then the last paragraph of the article says that as a group they made a statement denying sending these threatening letters: “Anyone with any sense knows that Women of the Wall have no connection to these threats, ...We hope police will find out who sent these letters...”
Female Israeli soldiers disciplined after posing dressed only in underwear and combat fatigues
The wall is separated between a men’s section and a women’s section. The women want to pray on men’s side in the ways the men do which is a deliberate provocation to the vast majority who come to pray there. Traditional Judaism separates men and women during prayer and also gives specific religious obligations to each gender. The desire here is to rewrite the Torah and to shove it in the faces of any who disagree.
They know full well they will start a fight and have provoked both the anger at themselves and the potential violence against the Rabbis (and Orthodox) of Israel. It is calculated on their part.
Now that certainly puts a new spin on this thread :)
Thank you for a thorough explanation. I knew that the men and women were separated, but figured there was more to the story that the article stated.
They do not want to pray on the men’s side of the mechitza, the woven metal partition which divides the the men’s and women’s prayer sections. They do however insist on formally (and loudly) reading the Torah and donning tefillin which is not the mode of traditional prayer for women.
“They do however insist on formally (and loudly) reading the Torah and donning tefillin which is not the mode of traditional prayer for women.”
True.
Perhaps they have been told not to do so by husbands or Rabbis?
Thanks; yes, very ironic.
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