Jerusalem – Around 200 haredim (ultra-orthodox) on Saturday gathered at Jerusalem’s Shivtei Yisrael – Hanevi’im junction in an attempt to block it off to traffic which they claim violates the Sabbath.
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Police who arrived at the scene dispersed the crowd, arresting one haredi man.
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No TV, no radio, no internet, no newspapers, no movies, no shows, not even a trip to see the circus once in a while.
I’d be bored enough with no life that I’d also go watch this show.
Although the halacha requires the protest of blatant chilul shabbos, it is unfortunate that a. The chiloni police don’t understand this and b. Many of the protestors have the wrong intentions.
Regarding the third picture, I would like to know which Rav says it’s ok for people to throw garbage on Shabbos. Name please?
Notice that the adult leaders don’t go to the protest to get arrested. They send the young and very young kids to become antagonizers. They are damaging the future moral value of these kids, regardless of how important the cause is.
If the cause is so great, go out there yourselves with your wives and get yourself arrested.
I wonder if driving my grandmother to the hospital violates sabbath and if they might give to stopping me on my needed way to recovery locations.
Doesn’t deliberately and directly causing police and traffic to re-route their travel on Shabbos constitute some amount of being Mechalel Shabbos?
Hundred of chareidi adults? Look to me like a bunch of punk teenagers. Police should arrest em all, then when parents com to claim their little animals, they should in turn be arrested for child neglect. Do this a few times, this nonsense would end. This is a chilul Hashem!
The artical says: in an attempt to block it off to traffic which they claim violates the Sabbath.
Who is They? The torah sais that violates the Shabbos
If they think life is so horrible in the “evil medina” they should be sent on a one way trip to Iran which they love so much. We won’t miss them.
This is sakanas nefashos. The police force in Israel is national, no city has their own force. And they are stretched beyond thin, with many significant cities having only a handful of police cars and as little as a dozen or so policemen and women on duty at any given time. Diverting these resources with protests of questionable hallachik veracity (I don’t see gedolim in these pictures) is dangerous.
the police can just stay in their station house on shabbos and wait for serious emergencies, but by doing this the hasidim are forcing the police to violate shabbos for nonsense.
i dont see any”clashes “
They did well in mitzvah 239 (chinuch list)hochayach tocheach as amusecha,but not mitzva 240,vilo seesa uluv chayt.
This is hypocritical … “to block it off to traffic which they claim violates the Sabbath.” … Causing someone else to violate Sabbath (in this case the Police) is as bad if not worse then simply breaking Sabbath oneself.