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