In light of the stubborn refusal of the management of the 'Ano' Museum - formerly Beit Hatfutsot - in Tel Aviv to respond to requests from 'Yad L'Achim' and remove the offensive exhibits that acknowledge mixed marriages and the desecration of the name of God - the great rabbis, judges and rabbis, from all circles and denominations, issued a 'holy call' in which the entire public was called upon "not to approach the museum or set foot on our grounds.".
The 'Keriyat Hakodesh' - under the title "Remove the Obstacle from the Path of My People" - is signed by the poskim, dayanim and rabbis, the Gaon Rabbi Masoud ben Shimon, the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Bernsdorfer, the Gaon Rabbi Shammai Kehat HaCohen Gross, the Gaon Rabbi Menachem Mendel Lubin, the Gaon Rabbi Naftali Nussbaum, the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Shaul Klein, the Gaon Rabbi Shariel Rosenberg, the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Meir Stern, the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer Stern, and the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Shmerler.
In the "Keriyat Hakodesh" it is said: "Here we have received reliable information, from the heads and directors of the activist organization "Yad L'Achim", who have been standing in the crossfire for many years against the condemners of the covenant and destructive sects and who have been extracting precious treasures from the devourer to the point of self-sacrifice, and from their mouths they bear hard testimony about the displays of heresy that greet visitors to the "Ano" museum (formerly "Beit Hatfutsot") in the city of Tel Aviv, to the point of a fruitful root and an anthill for open recognition in public of mixed marriages of the Jewish people and other terrible things that are difficult to put into words. Isn't it true that our souls are grieved when we hear them?".
The great rabbis note in their call: "We have also learned, and evidence has been presented to us, that the Yad L'Achim organization has repeatedly spoken, and made all kinds of efforts, to the museum management with a request and demand to remove the display - and unfortunately all their appeals have fallen on deaf ears and a hardened heart. Woe to us that this has arisen in our time, precisely in times when the people of God are in great need of salvation. And who can say that the standard has been broken?".
After presenting the facts, the great rabbis and poskim clarify: "Therefore, we hereby warn both the great and the small of all faithful Judaism, those who are devoted to the word of God and who are as careful as they are to the minor as to the major, that no one should dare to set foot on the threshold of the 'Anu' museum and not approach it for any reason or justification in the world, and the Sages have already said (in Midbar Rabbah, 21:4): 'The one who offends is greater than the one who kills.' May God have mercy.".
'The 'Holy Reading' ends with a prayer and hope that "God, in His mercy, will remove sins from the earth, both sinners and non-sinners, and will raise a spirit from on high upon them and restore them to goodness and the best, and we will soon be saved in eternal salvation.".
Yad Laachim reported that the great rabbis were shocked to receive the details and details of the struggle that the organization has been waging for a long time, in the face of the deaf ears of the museum's management.
This is how a family is displayed in the museum. Photo: Yad L'Achim
Yad L'Achim clarified that in parallel with the publication of the holy call: "We will continue to use all the legitimate tools at our disposal, and we will not rest or be silent until the representative is removed.
It is impossible that while the people of Israel are dealing with severe threats and plots by the worst of our enemies who are rising up against us to destroy us, an official institution, which enjoys state recognition in Israel, would inflict such a fatal blow to the Jewish character and identity. The entire world is struggling against the scourge of assimilation that is consuming Israeli souls every day, while here in Tel Aviv a sword is being thrust into Jewish identity in the form of a malicious and criminal recognition of its shameful desecration. We are not saying that we are desperate or that we have given up on the necessary and vital struggle.".
It should be noted that Haredim 10 contacted the museum about a month and a half ago to request a response, but did not receive a response.
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