There is somewhat of an outcry about this, calling Tel Aviv leadership anti-Jewish, anti anything with a Jewish flavor, and leading a competition among cities trying to wipe away anything that seems Jewish.
sources: Kikar, Srugim, Kipa
It is sad, and troubling, that Judaism is so scary, and threatening, to so many people, especially in Israel.
On the other hand, children are easy targets. They should be off limits. I understand parents who raised their children a certain way - they don't want someone coming along and trying to sell a different lifestyle and different messages to their children. Children are often impressionable. Wait until they are adults. The people putting tefillin on these kids would not like it if a group of people went to their kids schools and targeted them with messages of anti-shechita under the guise of animal cruelty, or anti-circumcision or humanistic messages such as loving people of all faiths or pro-LGBTQ messages. Nobody wants their children targeted with messages against those they imbued in their children. Wait until they are adults and then try to persuade them to put on tefillin.
This is different than the booths in train stations that recently came under attack. That was targeting adults, for the most part. This is targeting children.
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The big difference is that the folks in Tel Aviv pride themselves on being open and accomodating...except when it comes to Judaism.
ReplyDeleteThe Torah and therefore "Orthodox" Judaism is pretty clear that certainly things are off limits. (It's part of the sixth of the six connstant mitzvos).
open and accomodating generally means we let you live your lives as you wish. it does not mean we let you missionize among our children
DeleteGiven the general custom that tefillin are not put on children, only boys near or after bar mitzvah, I would assume that such booth would not approach children under that age.
ReplyDeleteSo we are talking about teenagers, which in the secular world are considered children, but the Torah considers adults.
And as for openness, would someone, to use your example, who wanted to set up a stand to promote one of the ideologies you mention be allowed to do so? Is this a blanket prohibition, or only Jewish missionizing?
Exactly. By definition these kids are over 13.
DeleteAnd most of them are fine with this. Only a very small percentage of Israelis (like 1%) call themselves "anti-religious." I pass by the local secular high school every day. When the kids get out, Chabad is waiting for them. There's a tefillin stand across the street; many of the boys cross, all on their own, and put on tefillin. On Fridays they hand out candles; many of the girls, all on their own, simply take them.
But to teach kids INSIDE school about perverted lifestyles is fine.
ReplyDeleteAnd try saying you don't want your kid exposed to that, as I'm sure many parents don't.
DeleteWhat's wrong with you? Especially, the comment by Bored lawyer - you must really be bored. Don't you know this is a worldwide agenda now being perpetrated openly and with full speed ahead to push immorality and the deJudaization of the State and this agenda is being pushed everywhere. They want to get rid of religion, in general and in the U.S. and England they are trying to force the yeshivot to teach every shmutz there is on earth, but, B'H, the yeshivot are fighting back. This is not random - this is an orchestrated attempt at the deJudaization of the Jewish people and Israel. Wake up! Tel Aviv is made to order to get this push this propaganda, r'l.
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