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Rabbinical Committee for Shabbos Deliberates on Breaches in Shabbos Observance in Jerusalem
by Betzalel Kahn

A troubled mood prevailed at a meeting of the Rabbinical Committee for the Sake of the Sanctity of Shabbos on 14 Iyar to discuss the increase in Shabbos desecration in Jerusalem.

Committee members discussed complaints made by shomer Shabbos residents reporting that new businesses have begun to open on Shabbos. "The Drugstore" in the center of town was named. Although its proprietor recently said that he intends to close all of his stores on Shabbos and holidays, they are still open on Shabbos, serving as hubs of shameful Shabbos desecration.

A prominent delegation of residents of Jerusalem's northern neighborhoods requested the Committee's intervention in order to solve the problem of the paving of the Shamgar- Golda Highway. Members of the delegation fear that upon completion of the paving, its main traffic arteries, which pass right through the chareidi neighborhoods, are liable to become new sources of Shabbos desecration. In addition, they claim that the road contains many potential safety hazards.

The Rabbinical Committee asked its secretary to organize a comprehensive meeting to which members of the UTJ and Shas parties in the Jerusalem Municipality as well as neighborhoods representatives would be invited. After the issues are clarified, they will be presented to the gedolei Yisroel, who will decide how to address the problem of the road.

The Rabbinical Committee stressed once again that any public or private body renting commercial sites, swimming pools, and the like lending their hands to Shabbos desecration runs the risk of losing money, because the committee is liable to publicize the fact that the site tramples the sanctity of Shabbos. In such a case it would recommend that Jews that appreciate the preciousness of Shabbos not make use of it.

 

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