The Kotel is the heart of the Jewish people. It unites all Jews as a symbol of our nation’s millennia-old tradition and history. Now that is at risk with the Kotel Compromise, that will divide the Kosel. A petition campaign has been launched worldwide to send a message to the Israeli government of “One Kosel” for One People.
The petition is having an impact and being heard by the Israeli government. After this petition picked up steam, Prime Minister Naftoli Bennet acknowledge that the Kotel Compromise will likely not go through. But we’re not out of the woods yet and you can help.
The present plan would divide the Kosel, create a joint entrance for the traditional area and give liberal Jewish groups control over parts of the area. This set up a precedent for the change of the religious status quo in Eretz Yisroel.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yehuda Yaroslavsky, senior member of Beis Din Rabbonei Chabad in Eretz Yisroel, wrote: “It is a holy obligation to prevent transferring even the smallest part of the place of our holy Temple so that it can be desecrated with matters which are the opposite of holiness. And no compromise or such thing, G-d forbid, is relevant here.”’
Click here to sign the petition.
Is this a petition to prevent Jews from davening? Is this real?
They can daven there, gezunterheit. They just can’t have a section reserved for anti-Torah activities. Not so hard to understand, is it?
The way of Jewish tradition of how’s it’s been for 3000 years.
The way of shulchan aruch
I’d rather all Jews have the opportunity and the freedom to daven however they choose.
Davening – and Judaism in general – isn’t about you and what you choose. It’s about relating to Hashem and what He chooses. Asei retzono kirtzonach (make His will your will), not the other way around.
We all relate to Hashem in different ways.
Davening isn’t about you either.
Who’s to say that your tefilos are any better than a conservative Jews?
But only if they’re within the framework of Torah. Not outside it, let alone against it.
So the question isn’t whose tefillah is “better”: it’s not a competition. The question is: whose tefillah follows the parameters that Hashem set out for us through Chazal, the transmitters of His Will to us?
I admire your inclusionary attitude, but would you be OK with people converting your shul into reform so they can “daven however they choose”? If not, then hopefully you can understand why it’s not ok to convert the Kotel into reform. If you ARE ok with converting your shul to reform, well then let’s just say we’ll agree to disagree.
Peace!
For those who are having trouble understanding why this is so important, watch the video in the article!