[Avodah] mikvah use

[Eli Turkel]

<<A mikveh is a religious institution, not a secular bath-house.  Halacha
requires the community to provide it for its proper use al pi halacha,
not for general amusement.  And since there is a takanah against tevilah
for single women, it follows that it's appropriate for the mikveh lady
to enforce this.  In Israel the Chief Rabbi has instructed all community
rabbanim to ensure that the public mikva'ot do not allow single women in,
and this seems to me entirely appropriate.  For the minister to interfere
in a matter of a psak halacha seems a chutzpah, and perhaps even something
that must be resisted at all cost.>>

The problem is that, as usual, the mikvah is built and maintained with
public monies.
As such that and many other issues are constantly in the vise between
religious laws
and modern democratic norms.

It is very important to remember that most requests of this kind to the
judiciary get turned down. So lets not overly worry.
I find it upsetting when newspapers make a big deal that someone appeal to
the "Bagatz" court over some issue.
It is fairly easy to do so in Israel and the vast majority are turned down.
Those turning to the courts to stop the trade for Schalit were doing it for
the sake of doing it.
Everyone knew in advance it had no chance of passing

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Eli Turkel
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