jewishfeminist02- I am named after someone whose mother wore teffilin and tzitzis, and I’m proud of it. She didn’t wear the teffilin and tzitzis to make a statement- she wore it in the privacy of her own home, and I don’t know if people outside her family knew about it. Women of the Wall is an entirely different animal- they’re wearing the teffilin and tzitzis in order to make a political statement about the religious practices of women. Perhaps it enhances their own spirituality, I’m not one to judge on that. It cannot be purely so though, or else they wouldn’t make sure to have photographers photographing them for publicity.
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