Speaking in Knesset after MK Yehuda Glick addressed the kedusha of the Kosel, explaining Har Habayis and not the Kosel is the holiest site to the Jewish People, Education Minister Naftali Bennett added his thoughts.
Bennet surprised many when he stated in Knesset that the Kosel has no kedusha and it is merely a support wall, nothing more. In his remarks to the plenum on Wednesday evening 24 Iyar, Bennett explained the education system is teaching the children “The Western Wall is not even a wall of the Beis HaMikdash, but the Western Wall is a support wall for the base of the Beis HaMikdash when it was standing”.
Bennett explained that he agrees with Yehuda Glick regarding the importance of teaching those who believe the Kosel is the holiest site that this is simply not so.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Why are we publicising this stupid apikorsus?
What does he feel about Yerushalayim and Eretz Yisroel, do they have any kedusha??
He’s an am haaretz gamur married to a non-frum wife. What do you expect?
There are three machanos delineating kedushas Mikdash. There is machane Shechina which is the actual structure of the Beis HaMikdash, Machane Leviah which is the rest of Har HaBayis, and Machane Yisroel which is the rest of the walled city of Yerushalayim, [where korbanos shlomim may be consumed and a metzora cannot enter] (the halachic walls from the times of the Mikdash, no the Ottoman ones that stand today). Minister Bennett is correct in that in terms of Kedushas Har Habayis, which is qualitatively different than the rest of Yerushalayim, the Kosel is technically no different than the Arab Shuk (by which I mean no disrespect to the kedusha of the occupied Arab Shuk).
Rabbi Bennett has spoken he was mekabel it from har Sinai
“… regarding the importance of teaching those who believe the Kosel is the holiest site that this is simply not so.”
As I have mentioned in the past, Glick and Bennet should meet with the gedolei Torah and “teach” them the “truth.” Then, the rest of the chareidi tzibbur will agree to be “taught” also.
If the roads which ancient people pray on gain kedusha, I’d think there’s some kedusha at the kosel because so many people daven there!
I can’t help but feel like this is kind of “darned if you do darned if you don’t.”
If Bennett and Glick had said that the Kosel was the holiest site for Judaism in the world, posters would freak out at them for overplaying it, being too Zionist, etc. But, when they say it isn’t the holiest site, they still get criticized. The take-away is that posters here just don’t like Bennett (don’t worry, I don’t either). Even a broken clock is right twice a day; what have they said here that’s halachically incorrect? Are you posters trying to suggest that the Kosel is holier than any other shul in the world?
Two revisionists rewriting history!
They could compare with the blacks in the US who have been doing this for years!
By these two clowns, the whole world is meshuga, only they’re the normal ones!
The Midrash disagrees.
Here’s the deal. The Kissel plaza does not have kedushas Bais hamikdosh or har habayis otherwise we wouldn’t be allowed to walk there. The kosel itself is a matter of differing opinions hence the minhag some have not to touch it. However the kosel plaza as the makom hamikdosh where there is a promise from hashem to Shlomo hamelech that whoever comes to daven at the makom hamikdosh will not be turned away all through the generations it was assumed that it has that status. So technically they’re correct that it’s not har habayis but to say it has no kedusha (or as much as Arab Shul) is probably wrong.