Comments on: An Open Letter to Lucy Sattler https://womenforthewall.org/2014/01/an-open-letter-to-lucy-sattler/ Preserving the Traditional Sanctity of the Western Wall. Fri, 23 May 2014 01:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Rebecca https://womenforthewall.org/2014/01/an-open-letter-to-lucy-sattler/#comment-36402 Fri, 23 May 2014 01:44:37 +0000 http://womenforthewall.org/?p=765#comment-36402 The two articles posted on the NFTY website and cited above are written by two young women who express their feeliongs of conflict at the Kotel, and their emerging sensitivity to their traditional sisters. I was unable to post this letter on the NFTY site for a technical reason (it did not read the captcha code though I re-typed it a few times). Here is the letter to my two Reform sisters who published their thoughts:

I applaud and welcome your sensitivity to your traditional sisters. Silent prayer is of vital importance to many streams of the traditional Jewish community.

How about holding alternative prayer services at the Robinsons’s Arch area of the Kotel? Then you would not be disturbing others.

Maybe we can let the Kotel remain a place of prayer, and not confrontation. Alternative prayer should not be poised to challenge those who pray traditionally or used for political change. Why not pray freely at the Robinson’s Arch?

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