People are now in all the chaos and thoughts are confused, but days will come when everything that is happening now will be examined and studied with a historical perspective.
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There will come days when holy Israel will look back and ask themselves: How and when did the phenomenon occur, from a people who cherish the value of life and struggle to prolong their lives for a moment, and from a nation that sanctifies kindness and helping others - we have become people who sanctify the moment, with an uncontrollable urge to continue everything as usual, while ignoring the people at risk, and everyone keeps saying "Peace be upon my soul"?!
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It would be better if all of Beitar Elite were under complete lockdown for two months, so that people wouldn't work and eat a loaf of bread, wouldn't hold events and meetings - and most importantly, not a single innocent person would die.
The easiest thing to say is that people can die from anything, including loneliness. In fact, people at risk are now left with two choices - either to be buried at home in solitude or to be buried in the streets due to corona. But there is a third option, in which the environment is careful and takes responsibility and gives up some of the impulses and luxuries, and then people at risk could also allow themselves to move around more, to be less distressed. A community that sanctifies the value of kindness is supposed to think about them and not throw them to wallow in their fate.
True and correct, and it is already written in our Torah that since a person has committed a sin twice and three times, it is considered permissible for him. After people violated it once because they were unable to, they continued and continued, and developed all kinds of theories for themselves. Suddenly everyone understands how to protect themselves, how herd immunity works, who is dangerous and who is not, does a mask help, and is isolation even necessary.
Of course, the pangs of conscience don't give up, so they also add some arguments for heaven's sake: Gamzo is an anti-Semite who wakes up in the morning and thinks about how to get the Breslavs not to go to Uman. In general, any guy who hasn't been to school already 'understands' the complex matters of faith and security. And everyone already knows that fear is what kills, not the plague.
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The devil's advice succeeded in creating division in people's hearts, as if the mask was invented by the Gra and shelved by the Baal Shem Tov. There are Lithuanian communities that are not strict, and there are Hasidic communities that are strict. But for the devil, it doesn't matter at all. He celebrates.
There is one solution written in our Torah for the plague - the main thing is that one should direct his heart to our Father in Heaven.
To direct one's heart to heaven is not to raise one's head and continue to act as usual. To direct one's heart to heaven is to take the 313 commandments, learn them, and intend to keep them - in what one does. And yes, even at the cost of unpleasantness or difficulty.
Anyone who thinks that he might go crazy or get divorced if he follows a few guidelines has a big problem with faith and confidence - and he is certainly not in joy. Because anyone who believes knows that everything is from God, blessed be He, and that He is with me in trouble, and he is not in sorrow or depression because they asked him to stay home for a week.
• The writer is an at-risk Jew who has been confined to his home since Purim.
