Despite claims by the Jerusalem faction that they intend to comply with all the Ministry of Health's instructions, one of the leaders of the ultra-Orthodox faction has openly called for breaking the law

• Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem yesterday under the shadow of the Corona epidemic Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The Jerusalem faction has claimed in recent days that they will comply with all the Ministry of Health's instructions, including the closure of synagogues and non-compliance, in light of the danger of the spread of the Corona virus. However, one of the extremist faction leaders has now openly called for breaking the law and having quorum.

In an article published Tuesday in the Pelez newspaper, which belongs to the Jerusalem faction, Rabbi Asher Cohen Deutsch, one of the most prominent leaders of the extremist group, published that the doctors' instructions should be followed, but the synagogues should be opened.

Bnei Brak Streets and the Mea She'arim neighborhood at the weekend \ Archive Photo: Yoni Rickner, Paz Bar

"It is an absolute duty to take every effort to prevent the disease from spreading, and everyone will do everything with his or her own power that will not be damaged or damaged ... Although many are embarrassed that apart from the things that are required by the truth and the ways of medicine, all kinds of government decisions to cancel Torah and prayer In many without justification, even when keeping everything that is required of doctors' advice ... and they even help with dedication and persecution. "

According to Rabbi Deutsche, "Even if they say that they do not suspect that their intentions in their regulations are malicious and intentional, it is clear to me that they do not know the value of matters that are sacred to us, and therefore it is easy for them to cancel the places of Torah and prayer ... because it does not consider it important and necessary at all." Rabbi Deutsch added that it was stricter for the ultra-Orthodox public "tasteless and unwise" when "on the other hand, permitting the public to spend time shopping even in closed places where many people are crowded and urged and everything touches objects, and all with great disrespect to the instructions".

Therefore, Rabbi Deutsch wrote, as a directive, that doctors' instructions such as distance between people, hand washing and handshake prohibition should be observed, and that each should bring his own private prayer arrangement. At the same time, the rabbi called for quorum, even in synagogues. "The prayer room will be well ventilated in fully open windows, and you have no choice but to pray together in an open place like in the yard and the like. Responsible Bnei Torah and God-fearing prayers should be placed everywhere, to be the rabbis' messengers to keep and to ensure that all who are there keep in grammar all the instructions of the physicians. "To".

"And doing so without any shrewdness, will be kept in it where a mitzvah guard will not know anything wrong. And keeping the health gaddles in grammar as above he has no reason to avoid today's duties properly and abolish the right of many and Torah Damagna and Metzla," he wrote further.