Comments on: New Chumra: Rami Levy Supermarket In Beitar Offers Separate Gender Checkout

By: emunah613

emunah613 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:29:27 +0000

Rami Levy is also one of the few people who personally came to the shiva of several victims of terrorists and promised to fill their families food cupboards for as long as they were in need. This branch of Rami Levy also happens to have one of the lowest priced products. Their produce is tops and the store is clean. All of the cashiers are well trained in customer service. I am adding all of this to balance the reporting a bit. This idea of the separate lines makes sense for the crowd they are catering to. Rami Levy is the only store that makes the customer feel that they care about making the shopping experience a good one.

By: Softwords

Softwords — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:57:16 +0000

As others have mentioned this is not new news. They’ve been doing this for years in Rami Levi Beitar. There is only one segregated line for men and it is there so that the kolelites can feel more comfortable shopping there. Note: non-religious and even arabs shop there as well, so you can imagine how uncomfortable this can make a person to have to be standing behind a women who is barely clad. They have a sign outside requesting women come in dressed according to modesty as well as this sign stating “Men Only Lane”, but I’ve neither seen either enforced, nor anyone making an issue out of it with women that don’t happen to abide by the stores request. To me, this is a sign that the community is doing it L’Shem Shamiyim. That is why they’ve had this rule implemented for at least 3 to 4 years and you are only hearing about it now. Once people see that they are only sincerely searching for modest conduct (w/o any baseless hatred) people tend to be content with it. (Further note: I think a lot of women are happy about it as well because it frees up the other lines and allows the women shoppers (who of course are the majority there) get out quicker.)

Please don’t make a non-issue into an issue. Everybody in Beitar is happy with it without fights!

By: avreimi

avreimi — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:05:11 +0000

There is soon going to be a new takona amongst a certain group [whose identity I have been asked to keep secret for now] which will require husbands and wives to sleep in separate bedrooms. That is for the faint of heart. The mehadrin chassidim will be accepting upon themselves to live in separate apartments. The housing shortage this will cause will be wailed about until the government provides special subsided mortgages for new housing for these giborei Yisroel. Don’t laugh, it is not Purim. This will be real by Tisha B’Av when you can cry.

By: YW fan

YW fan — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:19:42 +0000

#1, YES!!! AND A LONG LONG TIME AGO TOO!!!

By: proud orthodox jew

proud orthodox jew — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:03:12 +0000

You know I’ve begin to think of alot of the commentaters on YWN as self-hating-Jews. People look for ways to find fault with Jews. Instead of looking to be Don Likav Zchus they are intent at finding fault. And do you know why this is the case? Because people wish they weren’t Jews! They wish they were like the Goyim! They think the Goyim are more enlightened and smarter! I was told that Meir Kohana once made a statement to the effect of ~I’M AN ORTHODOX JEW AND I’M AS PROUD OF IT~! On this point I think all Gedolim would agree with him!

By: Non Political

Non Political — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:49:04 +0000

Avi K – I’m with you. Lets also remove the offending chazals that says that some one who lives with a non jewish woman she will be chained to him in the next world like a kelev, and the one that says their flesh is the flesh on hamorim, and the one that says amai ha-aretz sheketz u’benotaihem sheretz (or is it the other way around), and the Rambam who compairs certain people to monkeys, lets just erase everything that doesnt meet our elevated enlightened standards of Yosherkite.

By: shazam

shazam — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:55:50 +0000

Looks like they want to be frummer than the Chofetz Chaim, whose wife ran his grocery store (I doubt there was a separate checkout line or shopping times in Radin).

Soon they’ll want to be frummer than HKBH.

Hashem yerachem.

By: GeshmakMan

GeshmakMan — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:05:04 +0000

Agree with #8! The only people this should concern are those that live in Beitar!!

By: ysr514

ysr514 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:46:33 +0000

Amazing video of Harav Zamir Cohen setting the record straight on the Torah Haskafah of gender seperation

http://hidabroot.org/MediaDetail.asp?MediaID=13583&Excel=1

By: Avi K

Avi K — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:40:33 +0000

#3, “chumra” means that it is not required but is beyond the requirements of the Halacha. I am waiting for glatt yosher. Let the chumra of the month club concentrate on ben adam lechavero starting with erasing words like “shikse” (which comes from “shikutz” – something disgusting) from their lexicons.