Chuchinchow
7th Sep 2010, 22:09
Has anyone come across this Tel Aviv - Breslov Chasidim Don 'veils' En Route to Rabbi Nachman's Tomb -- VosIzNeias.com (http://www.vosizneias.com/63793/2010/09/07/tel-aviv-breslov-chasidim-don-veils-en-route-to-rabbi-nachmans-tomb) yet?
frb98mf
21st Sep 2010, 14:19
The charedim had a thing a few years ago about not flying over cemeteries (on the premise that you can't walk on graves and cohanim, descendents of priests, can't even enter a cemetery). So I recall they started laying bags or foil on the airplane floor as a "workaround". I think finally a more enlightened rabbi granted a dispensation that if you're thousands of feet up and moving at 1000km/h, it doesn't count...
Incidentally, EZY from LTN-TLV is always crammed full of frummers, and one of them told me that among the reasons is that there are no TV screens!
Neptunus Rex
21st Sep 2010, 17:03
Apart from the fact that the flight is taking them to their chosen destination at the lowest cost, already.