Rabbi Levi Goldstein, an educator and resident of the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, was hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the coronavirus. He is in critical condition and is sedated and on a ventilator.
His son, Zalman Goldstein, posted an emotional video reading:
"Dear brothers, this is Zalman Goldstein, son of Rabbi Levi Goldstein, a veteran educator. Everyone knows him; his father, Rabbi Shlomo, was the director of Lag BaOmer processions for the Rabbi. I would like to ask you to spare your lives! You don't understand what's happening here! This is devastation! People are still hiding, they don't want to reveal that they have sick people at home, they are afraid to reveal it - and this is an extremely serious situation.
"Here in Crown Heights, dozens and dozens, maybe hundreds, are already calling me, not wanting them to know, but wanting to know which hospital to go to, which doctor, and what medications are available.
"I'm telling you the situation is extremely serious! And it's not limited to older people, it's also for young people. Unfortunately, last night a messenger on Long Island, now the name has already been published, they say Tehillim about him is in critical condition and he's in his 40s! The situation is very serious! How long can we wait, how long can we wait? For people to wake up and see that this is a danger to lives!!!
"We have no history with this kind of thing, we're not used to it, but we have to take everything seriously and do what we can! Stay home! If you have an elderly father or mother, let them stay home and no one visits them! And for a wedding, for a birthday, weddings, bar mitzvah - everything is nice, let them have a wedding with a minyan of people. I don't know, let them ask the rabbis, I'm not a rabbi - but it's forbidden! You're not allowed to leave the house! You're not allowed to go to these people! You're saving lives!"
"And the ones who think it's already spread, let's say 95 percent are already infected with it, but the other 5 percent that remain, if they can be saved - if there was one Jew whose life could be saved and if they do a $2 million campaign to donate a kidney or something - they do it, right? So what does it mean to stay home? Not to go to synagogue? To the mikveh? Not to go to the Simcha? Not willing to do that to save a Jew?
"And this is not one Jew, don't open up to the devil what's going on here. I'm informed and every few minutes I hear. There are already people in hospitals here, slowly the names are coming out, every hour families agree to reveal that they will pray for them, but this happens when the situation is already critical. And with these people, with God's help, may they all return to health, but wake up! The situation is serious and we need to ask and pray! And ask for redemption! And stop being complacent. If you still have those who are not infected, be careful! And stop hanging around, it's for your own good! Thank you very much, this is out of love for the Hasidim, sorry if I speak harshly but the situation demands it. Good news and may there be a Messiah NOW."
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