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Jul 18, 2017
Interesting Psak: prayers blocked by metal detectors
I am really not sure what to do with this. It is a prime example of misusing "halachic" (for lack of a better word) decisions for political purposes.
In light of the decision by Israel to add metal detectors to the Muslim entrance to Har Habayit, the Muslims have been protesting and refusing to go on to Har Habayit and conduct their prayers. In addition, the Mufti of Jerusalem, in an attempt to strengthen the position of the boycott, announced his "psak" that anybody who concedes and goes through the new security measures of Israel and agrees to be checked by the metal detectors and then goes on to pray, his prayers will have been blocked by the metal detectors and will not be accepted by Allah.
The Mufti has since retracted this statement or said he was misunderstood or he did not say quite that...
In the meantime, anonymous people in Israel's government have said the Arabs should take the same position regarding the metal detectors stationed at the entrance to the Bituach Leumi offices and should refuse to go in and collect their money.
In light of the decision by Israel to add metal detectors to the Muslim entrance to Har Habayit, the Muslims have been protesting and refusing to go on to Har Habayit and conduct their prayers. In addition, the Mufti of Jerusalem, in an attempt to strengthen the position of the boycott, announced his "psak" that anybody who concedes and goes through the new security measures of Israel and agrees to be checked by the metal detectors and then goes on to pray, his prayers will have been blocked by the metal detectors and will not be accepted by Allah.
The Mufti has since retracted this statement or said he was misunderstood or he did not say quite that...
In the meantime, anonymous people in Israel's government have said the Arabs should take the same position regarding the metal detectors stationed at the entrance to the Bituach Leumi offices and should refuse to go in and collect their money.
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How about a boycott by them of the Me'arat HaMachpela? I think they should take that one up too, no?
ReplyDelete"for lack of a better word". How about "Shariaic"?
ReplyDeleteFor Jews, if we pray while having to go to the bathroom, our prayer is a To'eiva. For Muslims, it becomes a To'eiva if they pass through Zionist metal detectors.
As if rabbis don't make up halachik type rulings all the time...
ReplyDeleteSomehow, I'm not surprised, but this is typical of the Muslim reactions to anything regarding the Temple Mount...
ReplyDeleteAs long as they were "in control" of the Temple Mount, they could say that "The Jews defile our holy site with their filthy feet." Never mind that they were observed playing soccer and doing other things that were not compatible with the status of the Temple Mount as a holy site. Yet, Jews could not even appear to be praying on the Temple Mount.
Now, Israel is reasserting its authority, which it should never have ceded in 1967, and showing why Israel can protect the rights of all religions but the Arabs never could. Yes, leave the metal detectors, and place them at Me'orat Hamachpela and everywhere else they can. After all, they use them in Mecca...If they want to maintain that their prayers are invalid if they passed through a metal detector (but we can ask how they know this--can they "read G-d's mind"?), then let them stay away. It seems that it's not assertion of Muslim rights as much as opposing Jewish rights.
Doesn't seem any more off the wall than the Rav's psak about hearing the shofar in a shul without a mechitza.
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