תארו לעצמכם שהמשגיח במסעדה היה מעיר לכם שלא חיכיתם 6 שעות מאז שאכלתם בשר או בודק אם אתם מברכים לפני האוכל.עכשו תבינו את...
Posted by Yehudah Glick on Sunday, March 13, 2016
Translation:
Imagine to yourselves a mashgiach in a restaurant pointing out to you that you have not waited 6 hours from when you ate meat, or that he checks if you said a bracha before eating.
Now you will understand this shocking law from MK Moshe Gafni with the support of Habayit Hayehudi. Every person immersing in a mikva will be obligated to do so according to halacha. And the person who decides the halacha is the mikva attendant.
Listen well, members of the ministry of religious services and of the Rabbanut: Your job is to provide a service. Whomever wishes to be assisted by the attendant, go ahead, and whomever does not want to be assisted, that is their right. Your job is to provide a kosher mikva, and no less important, a friendly usable one. Those immersing will decide what to ask for and what not. It is not your job to stick your nose in and supervise the immersion!
Note: The law was passed in the committee, and will be prepared for Knesset voting.
I am not sure why Glick is so upset at Habayit Hayehudi for their vote on this. The members of his own Likud party also voted and allowed this to advance.
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You could argue both ways but it's a bad comparison. A restaurant does not exist to provide a religious service - the kashrus is just a way of making the primary service (the food) acceptable to religious people. A mikve's only existence is as a religious service. Nobody is using it for anything else so to say they should have the choice to do so unhalachically makes a lot less sense.
ReplyDelete(Not getting into what's halachic and what isn't - like I said, you can argue either way about the level of standards, but not that it's just a service and there shouldn't be any.)
I agree that the analogy isn't perfect, but I think the basic point holds. It's not anyone else's responsibility to ensure that anyone's visit to the Mikveh will have any Halachic meaning. There are hundreds of thousands of Chassidim who go to the Mikveh on a regular basis, even though they have no need. If they, or a woman, wishes to use the Mikveh, it's no one else's business.
DeleteIts possible he's upset because along with trying to prevent the hetrodox movements from using the mikvaot for their "conversions", the law of power abhors a vaacum and the law of unintended consequences just handed over the power to block women (men can use mikvaot without explaining anything to anyone) who want to immerse in order to ascend Har HaBayit, for example.
ReplyDeleteIts possible he's upset because along with trying to prevent the hetrodox movements from using the mikvaot for their "conversions", the law of power abhors a vaacum and the law of unintended consequences just handed over the power to block women (men can use mikvaot without explaining anything to anyone) who want to immerse in order to ascend Har HaBayit, for example.
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