Jerusalem – A liberal women’s group held a special Passover prayer service on Sunday at a Jerusalem holy site, drawing criticism from the site’s ultra-Orthodox rabbi, who called it a “provocation.”
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The group, Women of the Wall, calls for gender equality at the Western Wall, the holiest Jewish prayer site. The site is overseen by a rabbi who enforces conservative customs, including separate prayers for men and women.
The group planned to hold an all-female “priestly blessing,” a prayer typically done by men, but Israel’s attorney general banned it from doing so. The Justice Ministry said a women-led priestly blessing has never been held at the Western Wall.
In a compromise, dozens of women prayed Sunday, but a group leader said they did not perform the priestly blessing. Some Orthodox Jews protested.
Now im happy i never went to the Western wall whenever i was in israel, & now everyone agrees thet the holy satmar ruv z”l was right banning from going there.
They are “Women OFF The Wall”!
This is a new religion ,as the reform movement that started in germany and hungary did away with the kohanim (priests)and anything that had to do with the holy temple . They didn’t wear tefillin or cover their heads with any covering. These uneducated women aren’t satisfied with what they were created for, raising children and keeping what has been taught about in the halacha. Therefor they have created a new religion
lunatics!
Provocation? If it is, than don’t play into their hands.
Pictures of Hareidim screaming at people they disagree with is what they want.
They want to portray Orthodox Judaism as mean-spirited. We give it to them.
Very misguided but they sure figured out how to get us to give them free publicity!
The rabbi is 100% correct. There is no such thing in halacha as Kohanos. There are limited few things which differentiate the daughter or wife of a Kohain from any other Bas Yisroel. None of these relate to the ancestry of the “Kohenes”, but rather to the relationship she has to a Kohain. These Women Off the Wall wish to create their own Torah and their own halachos. That is blasphemous.