Most rabbis, knowing they don't have sufficient medical knowledge, trust the doctors they know, which are frum doctors. They aren't speaking to Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, MD (in New York) or Dr. Pinky Feinstein (in Israel) who say emphatically to stay clear of the COVID shot. They are Jewish but not frum. And they aren't talking to Dr. Zev Zelenko, MD, even though he is frum since he is Chabad and isn't one of their talmidim. He says don't take the shot. And they are not talking to Professor John Ionnides of Stanford University, one of the most respected scientists in the world, who ways COVID was just a bad flu season. And they aren't talking to Dr. Michael Yeadon, former VP and chief science officer at Pfizer who suspects global genocide is underway. The rabbis talk to frum doctors. However, frum doctors tend to be conventional. Three reasons: 1) They just don't have the time to keep up on the full range of research and opinions. It's a total life calling. 2) The most brilliant yeshiva men generally will go into Torah learning not medical school. 3) Frum doctors confuse the two worlds and see the accepted authorities in their profession as gadolim and the standard practices as mesorah and halacha. I heard one frum doctor say that his knowledge doesn't come up to Dr. Fauci's ankles. This doctor learned to talk like that in yeshiva! That's how we talk about Rav Moshe Feinstein,zt'l, not Dr. Fauci about whom Kerry Mullis, the Nobel Prize winning inventor of the PCR test said “he doesn’t know anything really about anything.” Side note, Mr. Mullis happened to die (coincidence?) six months before his PCR test started to be misused on a massive scale during the COVID crisis. As a result of the confusion, frum doctors are too conventional and they get fooled by the pretenses of idealism in their most lucrative of professions. 13 of the top 14 highest paying professions in the USA are in the medical field.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
COVID and Rabbis
All that money attracts very greedy people and corrupts better people. One has to be pretty naive to believe that all the caring that is displayed in the medical field is genuine. Much of it is a show that is a requirement to get the money and cavod.
Bottom line, rabbis aren't supposed to be led around by baal habatim or goyim, but when it comes to medicine, they are. I'm talking about these days. In the last generation, we had this:
From a letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1977
"The most essential point (to put it differently): The doctor's opinion is decisive -- according to Judaic law -- when he speaks as a doctor (based on medical factors or life-saving measures). If, however, he states his opinion as a state official or politician (based on political considerations), that according to his opinion, they (i.e. those political considerations) outweigh and eclipse the medical factors -- this is the opposite of the ruling of the Code of Jewish Law."
A letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 5712
2 Nissan 5712
Peace and blessing!
[This is] in response to your letter from 23 Adar, in which you wrote to me that you had read in the newspaper that a new medicine for paralysis has been developed in the United States, discovered by a certain doctor in St. Louis, and you asked my opinion about this.
According to what I was able to find out, this is not a tested or proven medicine. And in fact, it's not [really] a medicine, but only eases the symptoms. There is also room for concern since these are potent injections which carry possible risk of injury, etc.
Based on this, it is my opinion that it is not worthwhile to rely on the information we're hearing and take measures which entail the aforementioned concerns.
G-d will send healing through another medium, and you'll soon be able to send me good tidings about this.
With blessings for the Passover holiday to be kosher and truly happy, both for you and for your whole family, especially your grandson and parents, may they all live [and be well].
M Schneerson
As for Bene Brak, let me d'chaf zchus a bit. It's a very different culture in Israel. In general, rabbis in Israel operate in a more clandestine matter. They have to. Americans cannot fathom what goes on here. America has a strong tradition of free speech and separating church from state. What you see now in America is more like what has always gone on in Israel: tremendous corruption in the press and government infringement on religion. The American government engages in assassination but not like in Israel. One has to be careful. It's possible that Rav Shmuel Auerbach, zt'l, died this way. The brother of a gadol here (a big rav and a kanoi) was starved to death in a COVID ward. A hospital tried doing this to the Gaivid of the Edah Charedis. Whether this was negligence or something more malicious I cannot say for sure. But people here in general are very suspicious of everything and not for nothing. The government also frames people and spreads lies about them. The police raid homes at 3 AM. They pull all kinds of schtick. Nevertheless, Rav Yosef Vosner of Bene Brak, grandson of the great posek, came out in an open letter against the COVID shot. As for other rabbis in Bene Brok, it's hard to know what their real positions are. There is lots of forgery here. I visited a dayan who had authored and signed a letter on COVID along with another dayan on his beis din (or so I thought). His wife told me that he had not authored any such letter. The whole thing was a forgery. This goes on here. It's a different culture, heavily influenced by Arab society. You really have to speak to the person to know his true positions. I was in a group that went to see Rav Chaim 9 months ago in the middle of the COVID hysteria and he told us to take off our masks. So he, in his 90s who unlike children could be at risk from COVID, wasn't buying into the hysteria. There's a big rav in my town who instructs people through various channels not to take the shot, but he doesn't announce this openly. He knows that he has to be careful. The Talmud says to follow local rabbinic authorities. If people in America are concerned with what is being said in Bene Brak, they have to know how things work over there, how messages are communicated, and how much deceit there is not from the poskim but from some of the people around them.
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Remember: To achieve their purposes, all death camps used subterfuge and misdirection to conceal the truth and trick their victims into cooperating. his element had been developed in Aktion T4, when disabled and handicapped people were taken away for “special treatment” by the SS from “Gekrat” wearing white laboratory coats, thus giving the process an air of medical authenticity. After supposedly being assessed, the unsuspecting T4 patients were transported to killing centres. The same euphemism “special treatment” (Sonderbehandlung) was used in the Holocaust. The SS used a variety of ruses to move thousands of new arrivals travelling in Holocaust trains to the disguised killing sites without panic. Mass deportations were called “resettlement actions”; they were organised by special Commissioners and conducted by uniformed police battalions from Orpo and Schupo in an atmosphere of terror. Usually, the deception was absolute; in August 1942, people of the Warsaw Ghetto lined up for several days to be “deported” to obtain bread allocated for travel. Jews unable to move or attempting to flee were shot on the spot. Even though death in the cattle cars from suffocation and thirst was rampant, affecting up to 20 percent of trainloads, most victims were willing to believe that the German intentions were different. Once alighted, the prisoners were ordered to leave their luggage behind and march directly to the “cleaning area” where they were asked to hand over their valuables for “safekeeping”. Common tricks included the presence of a railway station with awaiting “medical personnel” and signs directing people to disinfection facilities. Treblinka also had a booking office with boards naming the connections for other camps further east. Sonderkommandos (in German: special unit) were work units made up of German Nazi death camp prisoners, usually Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during the Holocaust. However, many also assisted in coaxing Jews into the gas chambers. Auschwitz Camp Commandant Rudolf Höss reported that the first time Zyklon B pellets were used on the Jews, many suspected they were to be killed – despite having been deceived into believing they were to be deloused and then returned to the camp. As a result, the Nazis identified and isolated “difficult individuals” who might alert the prisoners, and removed them from the mass – lest they incite revolt among the deceived majority of prisoners en route to the gas chambers. The “difficult” prisoners were led to a site out of view to be killed off discreetly. A prisoner Sonderkommando (Special Detachment) effected in the processes of extermination; they encouraged the Jews to undress without a hint of what was about to happen. They accompanied them into the gas chambers outfitted to appear as shower rooms (with nonworking water nozzles, and tile walls); and remained with the victims until just before the chamber door closed. To psychologically maintain the “calming effect” of the delousing deception, an SS man stood at the door until the end. The Sonderkommando talked to the victims about life in the camp to pacify the suspicious ones, and hurried them inside; to that effect, they also assisted the aged and the very young in undressing.
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