Halakhic ruling: 'Zoom' software can be used during Seder

A group of rabbis, including Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel, head of Jerusalem's rabbinical court, the Chief of Rabbi of Kiryat Gat Rabbi Shlomo Ben Hamo, and Rabbi Aharon Cohen of Yakir, have signed a halakhic ruling permitting the Passover Seder to be held in the presence of the “Zoom” program.

The ruling refers to the possibility of holding the Seder with the software being opened before the start of the holiday, so that elderly people who cannot be physically close to their family members due to the coronavirus epidemic can hold the Seder while seeing their family through the program.

The rabbis state in the ruling that there is no need to worry about the issue of operating the program, since it is launched before the start of the holiday.

Regarding the concern that they will be lenient on this issue on other holidays as well, the rabbis state that there is no place for such concerns since it is clear that these days are a time of emergency and the permit is only valid for an emergency.

"Therefore we are permitting, stressing that this is only for emergencies, and only for the purpose of this year’s Seder for those who need it. 

And just as they permit a non-dangerous patient to receive treatment on Shabbat so as to cure him of his illness, so is the case here," the rabbis wrote.

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Fought Against the Nazis But What Killed Romi Cohen was Corona

 Reb Avrohom Hakohen “Romi” Cohen died from Corona , he was 92. 

R’ Romi was a famous Mohel who performed thousands of Bris Milah’s as well as famous for having been a partisan in WWII. He was also the founder of “Keren Avrohom Hakohen” 

He was hospitalized a few days ago with COVID-19 symptoms, and was Niftar on Tuesday morning.

Just last month, On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, R’ Romi delivered the opening prayer before the House of Representatives.

Born in 1929 in the city of Pressburg, Czechoslovakia, Avraham Romi Cohn grew up as a precocious child in a warm and caring family. His parents were successful in business and well known for their Tzedakah and Chesed. They often invited guests into their home and hosted local Yeshiva students who had no place else to go.

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DIN .... Why Hashem Sent the Virus

What .... ??

DIN are you crazy???? 
Did your staying 24/7 cooped up make you go insane????

You know why Hashem sent the virus? You arrogant am-ha'aretz!

Calm down folks..... it's true I'm nothing, and I don't know anything..

But since everybody with a hat and a beard has an opinion ... 
I also have a hat and a beard and so why am I not qualified??

So we heard that it is because of Tznees....
We heard it's because of the Chinese shaitlich...
We heard it's because of "vachnachts" "vorts" extravagant Bar-Mitzvas ...Bat-Mitzvas,  extravagant Brissim, "Loshon Hara"...
someone even mentioned that it's because of going to Uman and Lizensk, and other countries populated by the murderers of our relatives ....
Others mentioned Chillul Shabbos and gay parades in Israel!

So I don't know if that's true ... could be it is...

But I want to add some other things to the list ....
like......  
these same "prophets" throw Jewish children out of their yeshivos.......
Maybe Hashem closed the Yeshivos now to everyone??
"You don't want my children as bad as they are....well, I'm their Father in Heaven and I don't want your "good" children either."

These same "prophets" that know why Hashem is doing things...
order their talmidim to disrupt the lives of other erlicher yiddin by protesting and blocking traffic to innocent people trying to go to work, to children coming home from school, from pregnant ladies rushing home to feed their Kollel husbands ...
Well, maybe Hashem is saying ... 
"I'll make sure no one goes out ..so now ...let's see you protest ..
if if its really  Le'shem Shomayim...
Why aren't you out now?"

These same "prophets" that stood by silently ... when a frum soldier in uniform went to chap a Mincha in shul ...and was threatened with his life ...spat on and rocks thrown at him ....
no .... not by Arabs... but by the silver and gold bekeshes..
Maybe just maybe Hashem says:
" I'll close the shuls to you too!
If you won't let my child in to talk to me , then I don't want to hear what you and your children have to say... 
and you know what?
I'll close your "tourist traps" stores in Meah Shearim for good measure"


And finally .... Why did Hashem send it to the entire world including the USA?
If it's because of what some of the "prophets" are saying that it is because of "Chillul Shabbos and Gay Parades in the Holy land"
then why didn't Hashem send it to Israel only ....
I'll take the liberty to speculate .... 
wait a second.... let me find my hat...

maybe ....just maybe Hashem is saying ....

"The Talmud says that there is a non-kosher bird that is called "Reah" ....meaning "seeing"...
This bird can see a carcass ...a "neveilah" in Eretz Yisrael all the  way from Bavel....he such great vision...

Asks the Baal Shem Tov ...if this bird has such a great characteristic that it can see such great distances, so why did Hashem make it an unkosher bird?
So the Baal Shem Tov answers .... anything living in Chutz Le'aaretz that sees bad things in Israel .....can never be kosher"

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Rabbi Ephraim Wachsman Blasts “Ridiculous Vorts, Meaningless Vachtnachts, Lavish Kiddushim and Trips to Europe to visit holy sites,

In his over an hour long address, Rabbi Wachsman spoke emotionally about the highly contagious virus that has brought the world to its knees, noting tearfully that in addition to taking lives it has shuttered shuls and yeshivos across the globe.

Drawing on the words of Chazal, Rabbi Wachsman observed that that unfathomable and frightening reality is prophetic, warning us that we need to search our souls and find the divine message that is being sent our way as we spend our days in solitude.

Turning to the Chumash, Rabbi Wachsman noted that there were three instances of plagues that swept through the Jewish nation. The first took place when the golden calf was constructed in the desert, the masses dancing frivolously around the metallic idol. The second plague occurred during the time of Korach, brought on by malicious attacks on Jewish leadership, unwarranted hatred and divisiveness, with the final incidence was a direct result of promiscuity.

The parallels to today’s world are unmistakable, said Rabbi Wachsman, taking aim squarely at the conspicuous consumption that is everywhere in our communities that has spread through our lives, much like a contagious virus.

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Man Drinks Fish Tank Cleaner and Dies ...Wife Blames it on Trump

A woman has spoken out after she and her husband both drank a fish tank cleaner called chloroquine - thinking it was the potential coronavirus treatment called hydroxychloroquine that Donald Trump has promoted at his press conferences - and her husband died.  

The unidentified woman and her husband, both in their 60s, ingested chloroquine phosphate, confusing it with hydroxychloroquine, an antimalaria drug that's shown promising results in treating COVID-19 patients.

Her husband died and she was left in critical condition after drinking the chemical. 

The woman told NBC: 'We were afraid we were getting sick. We were getting really worried.' She said they had been self isolating before each taking a teaspoon of the toxic chemical with soda. 

She added: 'We saw his [Trump's] press conference. It was on a lot, actually. Trump kept saying it was pretty much a cure. 

Referring to hydroxychloroquine she said: 'They kept saying that it was approved for other things.'

"Please educate the people."

I just spoke with the AZ woman who, along with her husband, consumed chloroquine phosphate.

Her husband died.

"My husband was my whole life...it feels like, like my heart is broken & it’ll never mend. It’s just broke. Dead.

 

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Mother Who Has No More Children ...Begging People To Stay Home and Not Contaminate

I am a mother but have no more children.

My son died 15 March 2020. My 18 year old boy with the funniest sense of humour, best smile and so much love to share. He died.

During his life he faced so many health challenges with such bravery and grace. But He was doing so well. He had a full life to live.

He should never have died!

Measles! 

He got measles!!!  

In 2020 he got a disease that should not exist any more. And he died.

He died a hard fast death. He was ripped away from me in the cruelest of ways. He died!

 My son died because other people think it is ok to not vaccinate your children and then YOU walk around in public and the vulnerable are at risk. 

If YOU don't vaccinate then YOU stay at home. YOU put on gloves and masks and gowns and protect the public from your stupidity. Why should it have to be the other way round? 

All Dylan did was try live his life. But some selfish person ended it for him. And that person will be ok but Dylan is not. He is dead.

Open your ears and LISTEN.

Stupidity and selfishness are deadly.

Just like measles, the corona virus kills. If you get the virus chances are you will probably be ok. But maybe not. Maybe you will die. And before you die maybe you will infect others who will also die because of you. Who knows. Russian roulette with a virus not a bullet. 

Why spread it further. 

Why risk people like my son who never had a chance. Within days he was dead. His body was destroyed. He is not hear any more to tell me jokes or give me hugs. I don't get to hold him or talk to him ever again. He is gone. He is dead.

Do it for Dylan.

Staying home saves lives.

#doitforDylan

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Listen Williamsburg Vaibelich.......... "G-D Doesn't Help Stupid"

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What Will We Do Without the Goyteh Cleaning Woman

Koil Isha Warning!

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A Secret Minyan in Miami .... But Bring Your Own Toilet Paper..

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Javits Center to be converted to 1,000-bed emergency hospital for coronavirus patients

The feds will set up 1,000 beds for coronavirus patients in New York, President Trump announced Sunday.

Gov. Cuomo’s office confirmed the beds would be established inside the Javits Center in Manhattan.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will set up four medical facilities with 250 beds each inside the sprawling facility. Trump did not give a date for when the site will be ready to take in patients.

FEMA is able to provide both supplies and staff, Cuomo said earlier Sunday.

“From my point of view, construction can start tomorrow,” the governor said just prior to Trump’s announcement. “There is no red tape on the side of New York.”

In addition to the Javits Center, Cuomo said feds should set up makeshift hospitals at the Westchester Convention Center, to accommodate the New Rochelle cluster of virus cases; and at the state universities in Stony Brook and Old Westbury, Long Island. There was no word from the president on working on those three locations.

Trump uncharacteristically praised both Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, saying he had an “amazing” relationship with the governor and praising Hizzoner for “working very hard.”

New York State accounts for roughly half of the country’s confirmed coronavirus cases, which stood at nearly 30,000 as of Sunday afternoon. There were there 9,654 positive cases and 63 deaths in New York City as of Sunday morning, according to the mayor’s office.

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