A new Jewish women�s group is attempting to counter the provocative Women of the Wall group.
The group, which calls itself �Women For the Wall� (not to be confused with the name of the other group), says that its main priority is �to make sure that when women come to pray at the Western Wall, the experience should be as profoundly meaningful as possible.�
�We will do whatever we possibly can to help all women have that wonderful experience of connecting to G-d at this site, the Holiest place we Jews have in today�s world,� says the group, headed by Ronit Peskin.
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I would like to know if you believe that a woman may take on additional mitzvot voluntarily such as tallit and tefillin, benching lulav and etrog and sitting in succa? even tho most women do not or if they do many do not say a bracha
Tzilia,
That’s a very good question, but the answer, of course, is explicit in halacha, Jewish law — yes, of course we do. But that’s not truly relevant here.
The reason why most men wear Tefillin only during morning prayers in our day is the same reason why women shouldn’t wear them. And as for the others, when a person takes on additional mitzvot, it is something done quietly and without fanfare. There is certainly no rabbinic opinion supporting women coming to the Western Wall to show off her Tallit and Tefillin, much less to go in a group, singing loudly, when there are men present who try to avoid hearing women sing.
While many members of the group may be sincere and well-meaning, the leadership has a very serious agenda, which does not end with “showing women how it should be done,” as offensive to us as that may be. Removing the mechitzah for the bulk of each day, and changing our definition of Judaism to conform to America’s, are certainly not mitzvot for any woman or man!
Also, Rav Moshe paskened that it is assur for a woman to don tallis and tefillin if she is doing it for the sake of feminism and not for the mitzvah. (Or maybe he assured it outright? Someone more educated than me is welcome to correct me.)
What does it mean to do things for the “sake of feminism?” Does anyone ever ask a man whether he does things for the sake of “masculinism”?
What you reduce to “the sake of feminsim” I call for the sake of dignity.