What is the recommendation of the Chabad emissary in Basel after the increase in disposable prices?

November 3, 2021   

Rabbi Zalman Vishatsky, a shliach in Basel, Switzerland, published a post on his Facebook account about the rising prices of disposable tableware in Israel: Home Front Command in a major exercise: Are you ready for an emergency? This is how you will do it Alarming: 751% of those who died from the coronavirus under the age of 60 were not vaccinated Employers can receive a financial incentive of up to NIS 22,250. How? Enter There are almost no disposable utensils in Switzerland. Not that they have become more expensive or expensive, that's also true. But in fact, there are almost no disposable utensils at all - one type in one color is not pretty and convenient, and very expensive. On the other hand, here you pay for garbage by weight - volume, a 35-liter garbage bag costs 2.30 francs (7.90 shekels), so you weigh twice and, so to speak, what to throw away and especially what not to throw away. In other words, anyone who insists on buying disposable utensils will hardly find them, will also pay a lot when buying them, and will also pay a lot when throwing them away. As the saying goes: Blessed are you when you come and blessed are you when you go. So what do we do? The truth is very simple, we use real utensils. Breakfast in a real utensil is a pleasure, even coffee in a regular cup is something else. Every dinner and certainly Shabbat meals. We have a dishwasher for meat and dairy, we learn to live with it until we no longer recognize any other reality. In the photo: 10 garbage bags for 78.9 shekels [gallery]