The people closest to me, my father and mother, passed away from Corona within a week as a result of one Hanukkah party. Judah silk silk, in a special column
This week, as 2,000 years ago, we celebrate Purim, but in some ways today the situation is even worse, because Haman's decree was in Persia, while the corona is a global decree and a terrible plague.
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We learn from Queen Esther and Mordechai the Tzaddik that it is not enough to just pray, stand at a distance and put on a mask.
He set three days of fasting, but realized that prayers alone were not enough, so he asked her to risk death and get to King Ahasuerus without having called her before.
From this we learn that it is not enough to stand at a distance.
It is necessary to take action, to actively oppose the decree, even if it is a matter of avoiding mass meals and reading the scroll in public.
Last Saturday we read Parshas Zachor, and as every year I saw people running to hear the reading in ten different versions just to be sure they rejoiced in Zachary Amalek.
Also regarding the reading of the Megillah, the feast, the sending of portions and gifts to the needy, they make sure to observe the commandments of Purim with great grammar.
But those same people, without generalizing, are often the ones who came to the synagogue without a mask and argued with me.
They are the ones who did not keep their distance and ran to look for the grammars.
You give your soul to keep the commandments of Purim, but ignore soul supervision.
Please, keep the most important commandments there are.
Do not stand on the blood of your neighbor.
We recently celebrated Hanukkah, following which my family paid the heaviest price.
I, I paid the personal price.
The people closest to me, my father and mother, passed away as a result of a Hanukkah party, one party.
Do not make their mistake.
I can no longer save my parents, but you can still protect the lives of your loved ones.
There is an atmosphere of permissiveness in the air, the atmosphere of the end of Corona, as if millions have already been vaccinated.
But do not be tempted for a moment.
Drink a few glasses of wine on Purim, but consider what happens if you overdo it.
I do not wish for anyone to be in the situation I was in just three weeks, where I lost my family members, to see how they have difficulty breathing, fighting for every breath and breath.
Is dining and drinking religiously and legally worth this moment when God forbid you will have to stand at the bedside of your loved ones because they have not kept the guidelines?
We went out yesterday, ZAKA, the Rescue Union and the Home Front Command, on a car journey with flags to convince people to get vaccinated. I told them we were on an election campaign, not for the government or the Knesset, but "and you chose life." Of Osnat Ben Sheetrit: They were debating whether to get vaccinated, now they are willing to pay all the capital in the world to cancel this deliberation.
And to you, those who refuse to get vaccinated.
If you come to parties, tishim, synagogues and dinners, not only are you endangering yourself - you are also endangering others.
After all, in the Jewish religion, bloodshed is the worst thing.
You do immense damage to others, putting them at best in a state of bereavement and grief over their loved ones, and at worst literally dead.