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Tallit. Check.
Siddur. Check.
Rain boots. Check.
Believing that each
of us is entitled to practice Judaism in a way that’s meaningful to us, later
this morning I will head to Union Square, tallit
and siddur in tow. There, together with hundreds of others, I
will join in solidarity with Women of
the Wall—to pray and welcome the new month of Nissan, the one in which God
redeemed us from Pharaoh’s tyrannical grip.
I would like to believe
that today’s demonstration of solidarity will, in some small way, hasten the
day when women who wish to wear tallitot,
to sing, or to read Torah at the Kotel will be free to do these things. May the
new month of Nissan be the one in which the barriers to women’s freedom at the
Western Wall finally begin to be broken down.
Only then can all of us—men and women alike—be fully redeemed from the tyrannical
grip of Rabbi
Shmuel Rabinowitz’ policies that deny us the religious freedoms that are
rightfully ours.
Inspired by Ima
on (and off) the Bima, this post is one in a series marking the
days of the Hebrew month of Nisan leading up to Passover 5773.
