Rabbi Kanievsky banned minyan prayer even before the Ministry of Health's ban • Members of the Posk Center decided it was only a ban on Bnei Brak • Listen to the conversation

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With the increase in the number of patients in Corona in Bnei Brak and in the other ultra-Orthodox concentrations, the ultra-Orthodox public began to take strong preventive measures, some of which are even more stringent than the Ministry of Health guidelines. Yesterday (Sunday) Rabbi Kanievsky, a great generation of the ultra-Orthodox-Lithuanian public, ordered that prayer should be stopped altogether and prayed individually, a stricter provision than that of the Ministry of Health that allowed prayer on Monday under certain conditions.

Haredi rabbi to write "Israel today": Praying for minors outside Bnei Brak // Photo: Oren Ben Hakun

According to a letter circulated by the rabbi's house containing a series of questions addressed to him by rabbis of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, prayer in the minyan is a danger, and anyone who does not obey the Ministry of Health guidelines is defined as "persecutor".

It was reported in the Haredi newspapers and websites that Rabbi Kanievsky's strict directive not to pray in public, even in open space, is valid throughout the country. According to the Sabbath Square website, following the publication of the letter for cancellation of the quorum signed by Deney Bnei Brak, he was brought before Rabbi Kanievsky, and when he saw that the wording at the top of the letter was "for the residents of our city," he asked everywhere to publish his clear opinion that "the instruction is valid everywhere". .

However, in the Poskim Bureau, a high center for teaching and practice in the presidency of Rabbi Kanievsky, who operates from the city of Beitar Illit and "provides a telephone answering solution for all who require", did not receive the comprehensive and clear directive, and announced that the prohibition to pray in the minyan applies only to the residents of Bnei Brak. Residents of Israel.

The reporter "Israel Today", who spoke Monday with a respondent at the Center for the Poskim, stated that Rabbi Kanievsky's order not to hold ministers and pray in units is not valid everywhere in the country but only in the city of Bnei Brak. In the rest of the ultra-Orthodox concentrations, the Posk Center claimed, it is possible to continue to pray in public in an open area and within two meters distance between a worshiper and a worshiper, following the instructions of the Ministry of Health that allow such prayers.

Photo: Oren Ben Hakun