*Beit Shemesh News*
Guys, you get this?
For whom did the rabbanim of Beit Shemesh issue this psak?
Think about this for a moment!
Is this psak directed at the Arabs?
The Arabs by in large do not live in Beit Shemesh and Arab workers have their own transportation. And as a rule, Arabs do not read the Kol Koras of the gedoilim.
Is this directed at the children and students that ride the buses to school?
Students taking public transportation pay "bubkis" to travel and are issued RavKavs!
The elderly that are 60 and over, pay half fare, so in Beit Shemesh a one-way trip anywhere locally would be about 4.50 shekels that on today's conversion rate, would be $1.30. Anyone over 75 pays zero!
The Dati Leumi guys have cars and those that do take transportation, hardly use the "inter-city" buses, they use the buses going out of Beit Shemesh to other cities and there the buses have inspectors all the time.
No one reading this post really thinks that a "Dati-Leumi" is riding for free, not even the gedoilim that signed the Kol Korah, and the Dati-Leumi crowd wouldn't be found dead reading these Kol Koras!
So again, to whom was this Kol Korah addressed to?
It was addressed to Shomrei Torah Umitzvois, who put on Rabbeinu Taam Tefillin and eat only from the Eida Hachreidis.... use the "mehadrin" eirav, who would not drink even a glass of water that has the Rabbanut Hashgacha, and would never eat "heter mechira" G-d forbid
..... so, there you have it!
Yup, these are the guys that are stealing money multiple times a day!
The Gedoilim of the city of Beit Shemesh wrote the following in a halachic ruling:
"Warning against Not Paying the fare on public transportation"
A special halachic ruling from the gedoilim and dayanim of Beit Shemesh warn the city's residents that not paying the fare on public transportation is theft!
'Even though they made recent changes to public transportation, the ruling remains in effect. Know that there is a prohibition against stealing while traveling without payment,'
*בית שמש חדשות*
*גדולי רבני העיר בית שמש בפסק הלכה: להזהיר מן הגזל בתחבורה הציבורית*
פסק הלכה מיוחד מבית מדרשם של גדולי רבני ופוסקי ההלכה בעיר שמש מתריע בפני תושבי העיר להיזהר מעוון גזל בנסיעה ללא תשלום בתחבורה הציבורית.
'גם לאחר כל השינויים שנעשו לאחרונה בתחבורה הציבורית לא נשתנה הדבר, שיש איסור גזל בנסיעה בלי תשלום' כותבים רבני העיר בית שמש במכתבם.