tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517415131789241787.post1855260815569627762..comments2019-01-22T00:46:14.850+02:00Comments on Torah From Rabbi Yehonasan Gefen: MACHLOKES - KORACHRabbi Yehonasan Gefenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17427722446154341552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517415131789241787.post-58508863016433459692013-06-06T20:22:16.093+03:002013-06-06T20:22:16.093+03:00Dear Rabbi Gefen,
Thank you so much for posting t...Dear Rabbi Gefen,<br /><br />Thank you so much for posting this. We certainly have many areas of disagreement in our Jewish world, and it is important to try to regard "the other side" as 1) part of Am Yisra'el and 2) people who are also arguing "le-shem shamayim". With those ideas firmly in mind, heart, and neshama, can we then move to tolerance/accommodation/openness?<br /><br />As an example, let's take one "little" current disagreement -- access to the Kotel for tefillah. I am willing to see and hear that many of my chareidi brothers and sisters perceive the "Women of the Wall" as unacceptable in several ways, and that their machloket le-shem shamayim is to preserve a certain lifestyle of kedushah. Can they not also perceive that for those us who support "Women of the Wall", this is also a machloket le-shem shamayim? We see a group of Jews who wish to daven in tallitot and read Torah in a minyan at the Kotel, just that that minyan happens to be all women. Does this really raise us to the level of invective that we hear? <br /><br />I pray we can all be on alert for sin'at chinam, which is, chas ve-chalilah, almost more of a danger to us than Assad, Ahmedinajad, et al.<br /><br />Kol tuv,<br /><br />Reb Zisha<br />Reb Zishahttp://www.rebzisha.netnoreply@blogger.com