The Jewish calendar and the Israeli calendar intersected for them this week.
On the one hand, the Jewish calendar reached 10 Tevet, one of the "small" fasts.
From sunrise to sunset, we mourned the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem during the First Temple, while the Israeli press talked about the government's withdrawal from the layout of the Western Wall, again, with the intention of leaving the place and control it in one and only group in the Jewish world.
These are physical places - Jerusalem, the Temple, the Western Wall - but now the quarrel is within us, over the symbol of Jewish sovereignty and the Jewish faith.
Sages said about the destruction of the Second Temple that it was destroyed due to free hatred, that is, because of quarrels between the various groups in Judaism, and between the individual individuals.
One and only group has taken over the Western Wall, and refuses to respect the customs of other groups in Judaism who pray differently.
She does not respect either her theology, her thinking or the choice of women and people with different worldviews.
The same group does not understand the most basic thing of all: diversity is part of our DNA as Jews. It is not new, but has existed since time immemorial. Hillel and Shammai, followed by Pharisees, Sadducees, Karaites. Two Jews - three synagogues, and yet these synagogues exist together, side by side, and do not threaten to destroy and destroy each other.
Our ability to thrive as a people for generations upon generations in spite of all the disasters that have haunted us is precisely thanks to the same Jewish diversity that points to animals, prosperity and discourse that exists between different perceptions and sharpens our spiritual world.
It is a great pity that nowadays this dialogue, which takes place everywhere other than Zion and Jerusalem, has faded and disappeared between the various groups in Judaism in the Land of Israel.
The Western Wall should not be a synagogue of one religious group, whatever it may be.
It is a national site, it is a symbol of so many hopes and prayers, and every Jew - whatever it may be - should and should feel at home in it.
No violence, no fanaticism, and no spitting and cursing.
How simple, so true.
I wish us that in the fast of Tevet 10 next year we will learn from the past and look to the future, and that we will have a wall that contains all parts of the Jewish people.
There is no future without this togetherness.
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