Should women be allowed?

[SonWorshipper]

Baruch atah Adonai eloheinu melech ha'olam asher kid'shanu b'mitvotav v'tzivanu l'hitatef batzitzit.

Israel`s Supreme Court has barred a Reform Jewish women`s group from worshipping at the Western Wall, Judaism`s holiest site. The women have enraged the ultra-Orthodox religious establishment by wearing prayer shawls and reading from the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) at the Wall. While women are allowed to pray at a separate section of the Wall, prayer shawls and Torah reading are only permitted for males.

The court ruled that the women`s prayers could not he held because they might provoke violence (from the ultra-Orthodox). However, the court ordered the government to provide an alternative place of worship for the women, near the Wall, within a year.

So what do you all think, should women be allowed to wear tallit (tzitizt) ?

 

[NOTso angry-amy]

absolutely. no doubt in my mind.

if judaism is traced through the mother, then women are clearly considered jewish along with clearly being considered human.

orthodox jews separate men and women when at synagogue.... so why not allow them to pray at the wall but give them their own space. dont deny them the right to pray. it is rare in this day in age that there are people who wish to pray.... so if someone wishes to pray- WHY STOP THEM?

that is all.

 

[SonWorshipper]

But you disagree about Gentile wearing a prayer shawl, right?

 

[NOTso angry-amy]

yes, but there is a difference. i am not saying that gentiles cannot pray.

 

[Talmid HaYarok]

Sigh. I long for the day when the Israeli government will stop cowering before the demands of the Ultra-Orthodox.

Why can't Israel be allowed to be a land for all Jews?

and why does it put the interests of the Ultra-Orthodox before the interests of the majority in a democracy?

The Kotel draws me with a sense of a remnant once majestic grandness and holiness. Yet at the same time I'm repulsed by the spirits of the people who fight and argue there in the midst of it.

 

 

[SonWorshipper]

Well I am glad that at least we are allowed to pray!

 

[NOTso angry-amy]

Yesterday at 09:36 PM sonworshipper said this in Post #6

Well I am glad that at least we are allowed to pray!

i am not sure what you are trying to say here.

 

[MissytheButterfly]

Amen to that Pray4Isreal and Talmid.. I agree.

Missy