Gra Weiss: This is the prayer that should be said when receiving a coronavirus vaccine • Watch

January 11, 2021   

The Rabbi of the 'Darache Hora', Rabbi Asher Weiss, the ruling rabbi of the 'Shaarei Tzedek' hospital, was vaccinated today with the second dose of the vaccine against the coronavirus. "So I received the second dose of the vaccine and many ask whether one should recite the blessing 'Shehayinu', and I say that one should not recite the blessing 'Shehayinu'. Whoever wants to recite the blessing should buy a new garment or a new fruit and recite the blessing 'Shehayinu'. "But what is important, as it is written in the Shulchan Aruch, a person who practices medicine should pray to God and say: 'May it be your will, O God, that this business for me will be for medicine, because you are a free doctor.' "He who takes the vaccine should say this prayer, that God will protect everyone, and that we will soon be worthy of emerging from darkness into light and be able to return to normal life, to synagogues and seminaries, that we will emerge from this difficult period of the pandemic. Amen.".