Ha'aretz horrified: "Do not allow lady officers to install mezuzah"

The trend of digging into halachic rulings and making clauses into media headlines - continues: Ha'aretz reports this morning (Sunday) to readers that the ruling of the Military Rabbinate also states that in a structure where women soldiers reside, "it is more worthy to be stringent... "Kol kvuda bas melech pnima"… it is more appropriate in a public framework to impose the setting of a mezuzah on a man. "

Haaretz brings this to the side of other halachic rulings worthy, in its perception, of make a news item: among other things, the newspaper brings a psak stating that the "The idea that non-Jews have equal rights in the country is opposite to the view of the Torah, and there is no halachic state to representatives of the state to act against the will of the Torah."

The psak was said in answer to the question why the military bases are committed to having a mezuzah although there are gentile soldiers who also serve in the army and therefore the place is considered as a "mutual home" for Jews and gentiles. Following a long debate whether state property is indeed considered "common possessions" of all citizens, it is ruled that even then, the majority of the population is Jewish and therefore bases are chayav in mezuzah. Then they add that "the idea that gentiles anyway have equal rights in the country, violates the view of the Torah" and note that according to halachah "it does not have effect."

The piskei halacha are quoted by Ha'aretz from a halacha book of the Beit Midrash of military chaplaincy and deals with unique questions that arise in military service. The book was published in Shvat 5772.

Another question presented in the article is whether a mezuzah in a military formation used by gentile soldiers. Because there are poskim who rule that a Mezuzah possessed by a non-Jew, there is concern that the gentile "would disgrace it," the book lays the responsibility on "the military system, as the homeowner, to fix a mezuzah in the living rooms, even those in which gentile soldiers reside. However, in a place where there is fear of disgrace for the mezuzahs, the Rav of the unit should have the commanders sign for the mezuzahs so that one can prosecute them when necessary and prevent degradation."

Rulings of the military rabbinate brought Haaretz to asking for a response by the IDF spokesman, who defended the book: "The book 'Laws of Mezuzah' is a clearly halachic book which deals with halachic questions found in the military everyday reality. Though quotations presented are from answering individual questions, one can not see the answers as applying only to a particular group, the answer given is correct for each unit where there is concern for degrading of mezuzahs and their distruction. Regarding the fixing of a mezuzah by a woman, it is customary in Jewish history that the father of the family afixes the mezuzah, so that the army does so as well, but there is no halachic reason that a woman should not fix the mezuzah and no such preventive is mentioned in the book. "

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