Written on a Huffington Post Article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-bradley-shavit-artson/unity-is-not-uniformity-an-open-letter-to-natan-sharansky_b_2372390.html
Mirrors are sometimes broken and so too are women who seek to fulfill their own role in judaism by becoming the man's world of Torah and tefillin and the like. This should not be a national issue as these ladies are truly unaccustomed to being understood for their designs, but really the future is a mix of ambiguous inertia which serves to accustom itself to the future by means of a discretion that may or may not be a world of hatred or idolatry but really a world of incongruence in the light of a new era of equal opportunity and equal rights. This is a good thing and we are probably moving forward, but the reality is that the women at the wall are not the issue for Torah Judaism. The reason that this happens is that we all seek to number ourselves in a higher order. If there is a new paradigm for jewish existence that be it will be a trying time for the unaccustomed to living freely, there is a new paradigm by which we must teach and understand our future in terms of common sense and trust in a higher power. These ladies at the wall are likely not a civil disorder but really in truth they may have elected themselves to be an intercessor for the indignity that they feel and thus they have eloped withthe concept that G-d is not exactly ONE. And that is a huge issue for their future in the heavens. G-d is ONE.
To those who wish to recede and "fix" this problem by ordinance: This might work, but it is also a paradigm for constricted reason and an allowance of religious freedom to be infringed.
It makes no sense to fight this phenominon in the current place as there is no hope for it in the heavens. That said, we are to be tolerant and excuse the insubordination of the interloper in his or her term of intense anguish. That is playing a role in these ladies lives and we should not be forcing them to adhere to our expectations as they are confused and like a mentally ill person, we are unable to offer them insight. They will retaliate and there will be injustice. And that is the fault of the ones who seek to corrupt the future by placing restrictions on the dignity of the women who seem to think that this is their future.
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Sidenote- I got called misogynistic for writing this entry here. I am really not certain if the reason was the initial wording that mentions that some women are "broken" or if its just because I am going after a difficult time period where some women wish to dress in men's garb. Either way, I follow Torah which states that men and women should never wear items that are assimylated into the other gender's category of clothing. This to me does not mean a woman can not wear pants, but to wear a tzitzis is to me very much against good judgement. Either way, we are called to practice truth and that is my intent. And to me, to wear the belongings of a different gender to me is being broken in a sense. So I stand by this article.
I actually consider myself quite a progressive on this topic. I am not calling for these women to be prosecuted and I think that by doing so, you are breaking the world apart even more. But I will stand up and say that while I will not stand in their way to do what they want to do at the Wall today, I think it is wrong.
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