Throughout the ages rabbis have repeatedly determined how to treat and deal with epidemics • Meir Indor dives into the sources and returns with answers • Opinion
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Violations of the rules of the fight against the plague in parts of the ultra-Orthodox and religious society, are contrary to the rulings of the great ultra-Orthodox rabbis today and in the tradition of the generations
The heated media debate about the violations of the closure in parts of the ultra-Orthodox community, raises serious questions posed by their spokespersons: What is the source of the authority to oblige the public to comply with health regulations, when they are sometimes against prayer and public prayer?
And how does the High Court allow demonstrations to take place without limiting numbers, while the number of worshipers was limited in foreign minyars to only ten on days of closure. And why were malls and businesses allowed to open while synagogues remained closed?
So here are the answers that come from the greatest arbitrators in the ultra-Orthodox community, today and in the past.
Rebbe Magor, the leader of the great Chassidut in Israel, does not look at how the "other side" is conducted, and in a practical answer that characterizes the Chassidut he instructs:
We will make it worse as required by the doctors. "He has been strict about this since the beginning of the plague.
It may surprise those who listen and watch the dipstate channels, with the articles against the ultra-Orthodox, but most ultra-Orthodox arbitrators think like him - that doctors and their medical rulings should be listened to.
Rabbi Edelstein, the greatest of the ultra-Orthodox-Lithuanian generation, said in a Torah lesson that one should "be one hundred percent careful, according to the doctors' well-known instructions. Be careful not to harm others, keep all the precautionary rules intact."
He called the violator of the orders in the harsh phrase "chasing!"
And explained: "It is not only towards himself, but also infects others and harms others and he pursues."
One of the greatest arbitrators in the ultra-Orthodox world, Rabbi Asher Weiss, also writes again and again that physicians must be obeyed: "It is from the foundations of halakhah to trust the opinion of experts and physicians in every field and field."
We'll go back two hundred years.
Rabbi Akiva Eiger wrote at the time during a plague in his country: "Doctors should be listened to and the considerations of danger and its severity should be preferred, especially if the danger is to others as well ... "And the spread of the sick in the city, and great torture unbearable."
Who do you hear about these issues?
For politicians or journalists?
And what happens if a separatist cult of doctors and media supporters rises up against the doctors, as did some doctors who participated in the Orly and Guy journalists' film Against Health Regulations?
Halacha also refers to this.
In this case go by the majority of doctors and do not listen to the minority.
According to Maimonides, who himself was a physician, we must see the opinion of most physicians as decisive and decisive, and so it was also determined in Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim Mark 1818, section D.
Rabbi Asher Weiss writes: "And there are explicit laws as well as how to behave when there is a contradiction between the opinions of different doctors, and all of them have weight in the opinion of the majority, and in the opinion of the greatest experts."
Where does the halakhic envelope for state regulations set at the end in the government and not in the yeshiva come from?
Every observant shall know that a mitzvah is to observe public regulations.
The public has the power to amend regulations just as they have been amended by "up to four countries" in Europe.
KV in Israel, we will return to this.
Is it obligatory to obey halakhic regulations for foreign government abroad? In 1830 there was an outbreak of a global cholera epidemic that migrated to Europe. In my opinion, it is true that the kibbutz in a narrow place - is not true, but it is possible to pray cult cults, and every once in a while, a value of ten people, "he wrote.
He even ordered the help of a needy policeman on behalf of the "gentile" state to maintain the restrictions: "And it is possible by standing guard from the police (MA police) to take care of it, that since there is already as the number do not let after coming there until they complete. ".
Here in our country there is another authority, being the Jewish state first and foremost the growth of our redemption.
Apart from "the sanctification of the great name that the name of Israel goes all over the world that the Jewish state succeeds in cohesion vis-à-vis the corona and every evening its success is celebrated among the peoples of the world."
(Rabbi Rimon, Gush Etzion).