BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — 200 members of the Beis Matisyahu Yeshiva in Bnei Brak tested positive for COVID-19 in the past few days, about a third of the entire student body. Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Baruch Weisbecker, who himself fell sick with the virus, allegedly initially told students not feeling well to stay in their rooms and not to test for the virus and students claim that this is the source of the high numbers of infections in the yeshiva. Sources close to the Rosh Yeshiva denied the allegations.
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80 of the sick students have been evacuated to a hotel in Kfar Tabor, and the rest are due to be evacuated to another hotel in the coming days but students at the yeshiva are worried that this is all too late. “If they continue like this and don’t provide an immediate response, the numbers will just keep rising” warned one student.
Another student said that students strictly maintained coronavirus regulations but the yeshiva was still very crowded and thus the mass infection was inevitable despite the fact that the main hall was divided into compartments.
In response to the outbreak, the Bnei Brak municipality closed the street where the yeshiva is situated and is only allowing local residents to enter and leave their houses.
The yeshiva is considered one of the most prominent yeshivas of the Lithuanian schools of study. A number of other yeshivas were also closed after coronavirus outbreaks in Beitar Illit and Kiryat Malachi.
any deaths will be on the head of these yeshivas
Crazy Rosh HaYeshiva – he should be locked up with all other dangerous people
They will all have a Refuah Shleima In a few weeks.
With Hashem help.
I would go out on limb and say better to get the virus and get over it, have herd Immunity. Otherwise we will never get over this Magafa.
Somebody on TV said we should test less to make the numbers of cases go down.
Sources close to the Rosh Yeshiva denied the allegations.
A yid has a cheskas kashruas. case closed
Black HAT Lives Matter
lets be careful out there
Notice how a story like this brings out the worst in us? Only one comment mentions a refuah sheleymah? The rest are nitpicky, petty, and even nasty. Zos Torah?
they must take vitamin c vitamin D and Zinc for fourteen days . thay should also take other forms of vaccines that could kill off corona and have no other downside .
we all must say pitum haktores every day and psalm 91 every day
which only proves that a person can be a rosh yeshiva and still make a mistake! Sad!
Why parents allow these maniacal Rosh Yeshivas to dictate the well being of their children is beyond my understanding of parenting.
Where is it written that parents are to abrogate their responsibility towards their children for they allow Rabbis to dictate measures as to their children’s health and well being?
Are the Rabbis Doctors?
What kind of cultism allows for this outrage? This is not Judaism. This is cultism. Parents you are responsible for your children’s health, not some Rabbi.
I have never EVER posted on any website….. But I want to stand up for the kovod of the Rosh Hayeshiva. My son attends Bais Mattisyahu and it is patently false that the boys were told not to test!! My son has been tested twice and all the boys have tried to be extremely vigilant, wear masks and disinfectant. May Hkbh srnd all of Klal Yisroel a refuah shelaima- and please think twice before posting something about which you have no first hand knowledge.
Such nonsense. I have a son on the yeshiva and know the rosh yeshiva personally. He is גדול הדור.
.הזהר בגחלותן.
They have been extremely careful the whole time. The authorities have let them down and offered them no support when the corona started spreading. They turned their back on them till it exploded in their face…. Then they began the blame game.
The hanohala have been separating the boys as soon as symptoms began. Masks have been worn the whole time. The rosh yeshiva is ill please davern for him.
הרב ברוך בן צביה
The government should have helped them right away instead of picking on 11 old girls who take off their mask for few short seconds .