Distance is difficult for the devout audience to their lifestyle.
A devoted editor from Jerusalem published an e-book in July with more than six hundred pages of recommendations from 46 prominent rabbis. ).
A rabbi answered a question about blessings in food for those who have lost their sense of taste and smell due to coronavirus. Your decision? Prayers are necessary, because “even if one does not smell the taste of food, his intestines gain advantages from it and revel in food and nutrition. “He then introduced a two-page legal argument, bringing up resources from the Talmud to the bottom.
The collection, titled “Havieni Hadarav” in Hebrew for “Bring Me to Your Apartments,” is one of many pamphlets, books, questions and answers on radio and social media published in recent months about halaha’s problems, or devout Jewish law, the pandemic.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up just over 10% of Israel’s nine million citizens and adhere to strict adherence to Jewish law. The foundations of flattery are based on the commandments and prohibitions of the Tor and the Talmud, a codification of Jewish law written in the first centuries of the first millennium.
Orthodox Jewish practice is the result of generations of rabbis issuing legal arguments and decisions. Your decisions, called responsible, can be lenient and strict.
“Whenever a rabbi is consulted, he will necessarily have to do what a trial would do about him, and refer to past instances on which he relies to make a resolution in this specific case,” said Issamar Ginzberg, a Hasidic founded in Jerusalem Rabbi. The consultation and response approach has underpinned centuries of the Jewish legal code.
There is no way to say with certainty how many others will stick to the decisions of this specific book, but there are thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews, and the reviews of eminent rabbis are of wonderful importance in the daily life of the community. .
“It’s more of a textbook than a best-selling novel,” Ginzberg said.
Rabbi Natan Feldman, director of the Tzuf publishing space and editor-in-chief of Havieni Hadarav, said the company had sold about 3,000 copies of the book, which meets “the needs of the moment. “
“If other people didn’t have it, they would be in all sorts of ways,” Feldman said. “It’s anything that’s very useful. “
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox minority has been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the cities and neighborhoods where they live among the country’s existing hot spots. Overall, Israel recorded about 200,000 cases of the new coronavirus and more than 1,300 deaths. divide these numbers into population groups.
Religious spaces have been greatly affected in their component because they tend to be poorer and overcrowded, but also due to very close-up lifestyles in networked paintings, where synagogues and seminaries play a central role. a national blockade imposed before this month to help combat the outbreak of new cases in the country. While some rabbis have resisted orders to limit the length of crowd prayers, especially for this week’s high holiday season and meetings for Yom Kippur, or The Day of Atonement, the government has tried to work with devoted leaders to spread public advocacy and regulations and limit the length of prayer meetings.
Many responsible are dealing with the headaches of holding prayers – which historically require a quorum of 10 adult men – outdoors and in a manner consistent with social distance regulations. a minian in a non-unusual courtyard from an upstairs balcony.
Innovation has helped to succeed in some of the demanding situations of confinement, but it has also raised additional considerations for practicing Jews. For example, can a hospital enter on Jewish Saturday if there is a thermal imaging camera on the front that takes visitor temperature?
The activation of such an electronic device may simply violate several prohibitions, so Rabbi Asher Weiss, a prominent ultra-Orthodox jurist involved in “Havieni Hadarav,” pleaded with the choir not to even enter a patient, but those in need of medical attention don’t. “avoid entering the hospital and putting your life at risk. “
But the key, written through Weiss in the book’s introduction, is that other people will have to “be very careful to stick to the orders of qualified medical officials and Ministry of Health regulations and not violate them. “
Weiss responded to requests for interviews.
For Feldman, the head of the publication, the volume of coronavirus legislation is not only helping those who wish to enroll in the halajá, but is a reminder of the long-term tribulations faced by Jews in this epidemic.
“If there were, God forbid, a pandemic in the coming century, there will be at least one memory, a kind of need for long-term generations,” he said.
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