A little girl is about to go through a difficult and unforgettable experience tomorrow. Her Bat Mitzvah day is about to be brutally ruined.
The saddest thing of all: the one who will ruin her celebration is her mother. The mother of this innocent girl, whom no one has ever taught what true Judaism is, has decided to fight for everything sacred and precious to the people of Israel, and turn her daughter into a weapon.
Her mother decided to stir up riots and provocations so that she could claim that someone was harassing her daughter. Such cynical and malicious use of a minor girl would, in other constellations, have prompted an investigation by welfare authorities.
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But hey, her mother is from the "Forces of Light," the "Women of the Wall," so no one has presented the picture to you in this way until now.
For about a year now, there has been a section on the southern part of the Western Wall known, out of ignorance or malice or both, by the cynical name "Ezrat Yisrael." In the Temple, "Ezrat Yisrael" was the place where only men were allowed to enter, but whoever gave this plaza this name wanted to claim, as it were, that all Israelites can enter this section.
Just as the entire essence of the "Women of the Wall" is to uproot the Western Wall from its essence, from being the sacred place for the people of Israel, where the rules of holiness and modesty are carefully maintained, so they are trying to introduce a world of distorted concepts into the Israeli lexicon.
"This "Ezrat Yisrael" was specifically allocated by the government for those women, so that they could perform their rituals as they pleased, near the Western Wall. Knowing that that part was not part of the section that was used for prayer over the years and is not used for prayer today, the government assumed that they would be able to be near the Holy Wall, without violating the synagogue rules that are practiced in the Western Wall area as in a synagogue, and without violating the law that states that in holy places in Israel it is forbidden to violate the "custom of the place.".
No one is there to prevent them from desecrating the holy place, when they hold mixed rituals, the exact opposite of the essence of the holy place, about which Tractate Sukkah teaches us that a "great correction" was made when, with the help of the women, where women were allowed to be, they separated men and women in order to prevent "lightheadedness," as the Gemara says, and trespassing.
No one prevents them from reading the holy Torah scroll there, which according to Jewish law is forbidden for a woman to read in public. There they can perform their perverted rituals without interference.
Where were you during the Ten Days of Repentance?
But this section, "Ezrat Israel," stands deserted for the vast majority of the year. As someone who comes to the Western Wall several times a week, I can attest that the place was deserted even during all the Days of Mercy and Forgiveness, when during the Ten Days of Repentance tens of thousands of people roamed the continuation of the Western Wall, the traditional place of prayer - where you could speak and only the wall would hear.
The place stood desolate in his shame, and if he were here he would probably tell you how he realized that those women had no interest in him or his holiness. He, like that innocent little girl, is simply their tool for slandering the Torah.
What is your mind, to use the words of Rabbi Yosef a few years ago: "That's it, they have already observed the entire Torah, all they lack is a tallit?" The founders of this depraved organization, which is regularly funded by the "New Israel Fund" as part of its strategy to uproot the Jewish character of the country, carry the flag of uprooting Judaism as a permanent practice.
Anat Hoffman, who heads them, is part of the Reform movement, which seeks, mercifully, to cause the people of Israel to leave the waters of the Torah and hew out broken pits.
To the world, they market themselves as those who are "religiously persecuted." But they do not seek religion, only to make the Torah hate the people of Israel, after they already hate it and proudly declare their uprooting it.
There is a hierarchy in Judaism. There are commandments that we are obligated to observe, there are commandments that we can observe. First of all, we observe the commandments that we are obligated to observe – which those women absolutely do not observe, it is enough to look at their clothing to know this. Only after observing what is obligated, and if it does not contradict the halakha, can we also do what we are not obligated to observe.
Michal, the daughter of Shaul, said Rabbi Ovadia, who was perfect and fearless in observing the mitzvot, and after no blemish was found in her, the Sages did not blame her when she wrapped herself in a tallit. But there is nothing between these women and Michal, the daughter of Shaul, and vice versa. They are the antithesis of what that righteous woman was.
It is especially important to emphasize this in light of the fact that a number of religious women were tempted to join that group, and their eyes were blinded by its true goals, which come from Reform sources.
Attention at all costs
And now, notice the new strategy. The marketing people of the Women of the Wall, led by a woman named Shira Peros, sat down and thought to themselves: How do we get the world to notice us? Let's tell the world that we are being persecuted.
For those who haven't noticed, for months the "Women of the Western Wall" have been met with deafening silence. No one paid any attention to them, even when they tried to provoke them with the help of the women. It ate them from the inside.
How do you make noise anyway?
Advertisements are published calling for a "Bat Mitzvah" with a reading from the Torah scroll, with the help of women – and not in the same section that was assigned to them. After all, as mentioned, they are not interested in prayer, they are interested in provocation.
Once the ads were posted in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, they got the start of the provocation they were looking for. Sound like a conspiracy theory to you? If you speak English, you can listen to Ms. Prouss say it herself, on an English-Israeli radio station called TLV1.
""We got the exposure we wanted," she told the same radio station. "There's nothing wrong with a little provocation.".
It turns out that they also think there's nothing wrong with ruining a little girl's Bat Mitzvah.
Don't let them confuse you: The only person responsible for this girl becoming a symbol of "ruining girls' Bat Mitzvahs" is her mother. The mother, who, together with the Women of the Wall team, decided to bring her there, knowing full well that this was a provocation that would turn her happy day into a thrilling day that would end in tears, knowing that her entry there with a Torah scroll - her main purpose on this day - would be prohibited by the rules of the place.
Because that's what they want, they said it themselves: a provocation.
If her mother had wanted to hold a "Bat Mitzvah at the Western Wall with Torah reading," even though it was a violation of Halacha, and even though the Jewish people had never celebrated a Bat Mitzvah in this way, no one would have prevented them from doing so in that part known as "Ezrat Yisrael.".
But her mother and her friends don't really want a "bat mitzvah," nor do they really want to read the Torah. Their goal is one: to cause suffering to a little girl, just to tear up the Torah.
If this is their goal, why should we be sad when they receive it?
