Dear Editor@Matzav.com,
As a Bais Yaakov girl who was in Meron last year, I feel the need to comment on the Matzav story about Meron yesterday.
Hours before the disaster, things were crazy squashed. I saw people who were suffocating and required help from Hatzolah multiple times throughout the night…
It was my first time there, and I kept thinking that every year that people come home alive is a neis galui. My only comfort that led me to believe that I and everyone else there would be okay in the end was the fact that there had never been any known deaths until then… so why would this year be any different?
So anyway, try, if possible, to imagine THAT squish…
Needless to say, that night, the “shomer negeia song” kept playing over in my head. I couldn’t physically control my mobility enough to avoid squeezing into men and bochurim… And I’m not a weak girl, but it was impossible to avoid.
I repeat: it was impossible to avoid.
I add nothing to daas Torah, as the Slonimer Rebbe shared in yesterday’s Matzav.com reports. Daas Torah knows what’s right without me adding my two cents. But for those of you who say that’s not my daas Torah, and I just want to hear the indisputable facts to be able to form my own opinion, here they are: There is no way to be shomer negeia in Meron as it was on Lag Ba’omer in the past.
If you think it’s okay for boys and girls to intermingle, then discuss with daas Torah if singles events or mixed seating by your simchos is the right option. But don’t tell me that hugging every guy who happens to be on the same mountain as you is the right derech.
A Seminary Girl
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