[Avodah] B'dieved or l'chatchila

[Michael Feldstein]

T'isn't I who is missing the point.? Your assertion that having a mechitza
nowadays is a new frumkeit, unheard of in the past as per that video, is
simply not true.? They did not leave out the mechitza because it wasn't
necessary but because they were not allowed to put one up.
In fact, they did attempt on many occasions to put up a mechitza for
davening but the Turks/Brits tore them down.
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Harry's statement is still valid--although the video does not necessarily
prove his point.  He is saying that there is no halachic need to put up a
mechitza in the Kotel Plaza, a public square.  Just because there
were attempts by Jews in Palestine to put up a mechitza when it was under
foreign rule does not necessarily mean that it was the halachically proper
thing to do.  That could have been false frumkeit too.  The davening without
a mechitza that was in the video might be a b'dieved...or then again it
might be correct l'chatchila, as Harry has suggested.

-- 
Michael Feldstein
Stamford, CT
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