A number of leading Religious-Zionist rabbis have sent a letter to the leaders of the religious public school system regarding the case of a girl in third grade who has been passing herself off as a boy for over two years at a religious school in Givat Shmuel, Arutz Sheva reports.
The rabbis state in their letter: “The girl must be placed in a girls’ class. We must be careful not to hurt her feelings and to be patient with her. Halachah does not recognize artificial changes and forbids such behavior. Boys may not dress as girls, and girls may not dress as boys. Therefore, this girl must join a girls’ class. The role of a religious school is to teach the halachah and ensure that students act in accordance.” It is appropriate, the rabbis write, “to be careful not to wound this girl. One must help her with patience, to recognize the identity in which she was created. Imagination does not change reality and she should be helped to accept the wonders of Creation and the fact that G-d created her as a girl and with the privilege of growing up to be a woman and a mother.
The letter is signed by Religious-Zionist rabbis, including Rabbi Chaim Druckman, Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, Rabbi Chaim Steiner, Rabbi Eitan Eisman, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi David Chai HaCohen, Rabbi Uri Cohen, Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, Rabbi Zalman Melamed, Rabbi Ya’akov Filber, Rabbi Isser Klonsky, Rabbi Aryeh Stern, Rabbi Mordechai Sternberg, Rabbi Yaakov Shapira and Rabbi Yosef Artziel.
{Matzav.com Israel}
THE CHILD DOESN’T NEED TO BE TOLD ANYTHING OR ANYONES SYMPATHY. Children know the truth. ”His” parents are where the buck begins and ends. Are they ready to listen??
Please dont use male pronouns for this Bas Yisroel, even with quotation marks. The parents and the Principal who encouraged this charade are indeed responsible for this ridiculousness, but we need to respect this girls proper pronoun as a SHE/HER.
This poor girl is suffering from a mental illness. She needs therapy.
I think that it’s the poor girl’s parents who are confused or are suffering from a mental illness.
a religious school in Givat Shmuel – that’s in the entrance of Bnei Brak.
If anybody needs therapy it’s the sick parents.
Why do we give those kookoos so much media attention?
Halacah also doesn’t recognize…. the secular Zionist Government. Would they also pen a letter that a pig in a costume is not a cow?!
This alleged “secular Zionist Government” includes all sorts of non-Jews. In other words, if you don’t recognize the Jews, then how do you not recognize the non-Jews in the government? Are you telling us that halacha does not recognize Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and two score other countries that are Muslim? And are you telling us don’t recognize the United States because some Jews are in its government? Or had a Jew been elected President then you would not recognize the United States?
this girl needs to see a therapist but thrown out of the school in the interim we cannot allow the outside world/Zionist world to penetrate our holy yeshivos. The Zionists are doing everything in their power to bring down yahadus
This is not the topic at hand. Stay focused please.
God created dualities. Light and darkness, Day and night, male and female.