Rabbi Madan: "Even the one who thinks it would be better for him if he personally evades, deserves to take the risk" • Rabbi Gershon Edelstein: "There is no fear or risk in the vaccine"
Corona vaccines in Jerusalem
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Oren Ben Hakon
Against the background of the decline in the number of vaccinated and the expansion of the voices of those who oppose corona vaccines, the most well-known rabbis in the religious and ultra-Orthodox community are going to war.
A number of rabbis went out in public calls to get vaccinated, with harsh nicknames against those who oppose it.
"People who evade vaccination also cause others to go their own way, and rely on the 'herd vaccination' of the vaccinated that will also save them on the day of command," wrote Rabbi Yaakov Madan, Rosh Yeshivat Har Etzion in a letter published tonight in Israel Today.
"Countless people have already died from the disease, others have suffered greatly, and many others have lost their livelihoods and the peace of their homes due to the disease, and we have not yet talked about the abolition of the Torah, the abolition of prayer and the abolition of the mitzvos caused by the virus." "This is a situation in which even the thinker who would be better off if he personally evaded a vaccine deserved to take the accompanying risk and be vaccinated for the lofty goal of public health and the ability to rehabilitate the individual economy and the general economy faster."
"We all take risks during war, sitting in a book and at the border and while traveling to work, etc. Here is a great mitzvah for all of us to enlist for the common good and get vaccinated, and also to set an example for others in action for the common good." The plague, "concluded Rabbi Madan.
Rabbi Madan's remarks come a day after a scathing speech by the great ultra-Orthodox rabbi, Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, in which he called on the masses to get vaccinated.
"We have won with the help of the name that there are vaccines, something new, there are vaccines. And it is a very great salvation from vaccines, and there is no fear and risk in it, and if there is any special reason you can consult a doctor, there are experts in this, but it is a proven and experienced drug. The vaccines. "
"The corona continues and hurts, there are serious patients who need hospitalization and many have died as well, the disease is really dangerous if you are not careful," said Rabbi Edelstein.
"Therefore keeping the precautionary rules is a very big obligation both for oneself and others. If a person is not careful it is a sin of and you are saved for your souls and keep your soul and he deserves punishment then he increases the danger of more harm. So it is a very big charge to be careful."
Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon, head of the Beit Midrash at the Lev Academic Center and one of the well-known rabbis in religious Zionism, also published a letter calling on the masses to get vaccinated.
"We are privileged that the State of Israel is a world leader in the corona vaccine. It is worthwhile to succeed in eradicating the plague, we need everyone to get vaccinated. Even if there are very far-reaching concerns about the vaccine, there is a huge risk, without comparability, in relation to corona disease.
"Everyone, should make a great effort to get vaccinated as soon as they can, whether when a donor arrives, or whether they hear about unnecessary vaccines that are about to be thrown away. Everyone who gets vaccinated keeps a mitzvah of keeping his body, and keeps a mitzvah of" You will not stand on your blood ", By not harming the public, and even helping to eradicate the plague."