Mass ‘Demonstrations’ Will Allow Chasidim To Pray With Rebbes On Rosh Hashana

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Despite the Israeli government enforcing a strict lockdown which will commence a few hours before Rosh Hashana, members of numerous chasidic groups intend to pray together with their rebbes during the holiday and still be able to return home afterwards. This is due to a loophole in the lockdown allowing demonstrations to take place without any restrictions and without a need to stay within 500 meters of one’s house.

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According to the Kan television station, a large number of petitions were filed for demonstrations to take place on the night after Rosh Hashana protesting the fact that the lockdown was initiated specifically on the Jewish holidays and not during the previous vacation period or at the beginning of the school year. MK Yaakov Litzman, who resigned his ministerial post this week in protest of the upcoming lockdown, is working to obtain permits for all of these ‘demonstrations’, which will enable the chasidim to return home from their rebbes while participating in these demonstrations.

The Eda Charedis also joined in calling for demonstrations on Motzaei Rosh Hashana to protest the fact that the government is “burdening the people of Israel and deliberately hinder Torah observers with all kinds of issues.” The demonstration will take place in Shabbat square in Meah Shearim.

The Eda added that “it is incumbent on each person to maintain his health, but it has long been proven that the various restrictions are not just to maintain health but also to engender fear and to hinder us from performing any holy actions.”

The Eda also issued a warning: “Do not give the authorities their wishes, wake up and prepare for the holy days properly as with every year, praying in the required manner to the Holy One, Blessed be He.”

 

 

 


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PaulinSaudi
PaulinSaudi
3 years ago

I certainly hope nobody dies as a result.

CudahyKid
CudahyKid
3 years ago

I understand how very important to go to Shul on Shabbat and the Holidays, but should this happen this year with the Covid 19 virus.
I was told that preserving all life is more important than the Commandments in the Torah.
Shana Tova and keep safe.

israel
israel
3 years ago

Israel has instituted one of the most draconian policies in the world, yet they say the infection rate is the highest. You’d think the Jewish brain would get to work and wonder why? Maybe the policies don’t work. Maybe they make things worse. Maybe the infection rate data is wrong. Maybe it’s because they test so many people at a high rate of magnification. Maybe they aren’t infected really but are just exposed to the virus. That is after all what the PCR test measures – exposure to the virus, not infection. There’s no denying few people have symptoms and around 500 only are seriously ill. What’s the response of the Israeli leaders? Intensify the policies. That, I am learning, is the Israeli mentality. Just brute force on everything. This is the same mentality that causes bus drivers to shout at you if you don’t insert your Rav Kav perfectly. It’s just this brutish, thuggish, mindless aggressiveness, always backed up by police and military. That is the real Israel. And we are seeing it here in spades. It’s pretty much the opposite of what people in the shtetl were like. And wasn’t that the whole goal – to rebel against the shtetl? Well this is the result. 1 million people in bidud and now the world’s first 2nd national lockdown. (How many countries had even 1 national lockdown?) And need I mention, a lockdown on the Holiest Days of the year. Why did I move here, to a so-called Jewish state that is the opposite in character from the Jews I descend from?

Golda
Golda
3 years ago

It’s amazing that people have a problem with davening with one’s rebbe but not with the currently ongoing protests by the secular Israelis.The yetzer hora is hard at work under the pretense of “health”. If it was about health youd see the same oppoistion to the protests which no one cares about.

Circle
Circle
3 years ago

Finally!

Beerdrinkinrabbi
Beerdrinkinrabbi
3 years ago

It seems the people commenting are unfamiliar with the eidah. It is not a group of teenagers. Their rabbanim include rmoshe shternbuch and many other household names by any orthodox rabbi seriosly involved in psak. If you ask your rabbi a question esp. One about pikuach nfashosh the answer could easily have come from the eidah

Dump people are not smart
Dump people are not smart
3 years ago

The Eda Charedis is an ideologically defunct group. They are anti-zionist because there is no consequence to being anti-zionist. If you take their ideas to their natural conclusion it would mean giving rule of Eretz Yisroel to the Arabs, which would be ludicrous (Neutrei Karta is just openly saying what the natural conclusion of the ideology the Eda claims to follow is… Of course NK with demonstrating with sonei yisroel has crossed the line from what the Eda does, but the end result of their ideologies is functionally the same). Leadership there thrives on being anti-zionist and I am sure they are happy they found another reason or way to protest and remain relevant.

As to non-Eda groups, if they are doing this, I feel their pain. They should be careful in how they conduct davening on the Yom Hadin, as not sure how the confluence about crying to be saved from a plague with not taking precautions (especially now in Eretz Yisroel where the hospitals are a bit overwhelmed) is considered.