A Vort About the Virus from DIN

This Shabbat most shuls will say the tefila of אב הרחמים before מוסף ........

So you ask what is the chidush? Don't we say אב הרחמים every shabbos? 

Actually no, we usually skip this prayer,
a prayer that deals with those Jews that were martyred for being Jews, 
when there is a bris in shul , or when there is a groom present who is in midst of his sheva berachos, or if that particular shabbos is Parshas Zachor, Parshas Para, Parshas Ha'choidesh, Shabbos Shekalim....

And there is another shabbos that we don't say אב הרחמים and that's when Shabbos is also Rosh Chodesh...

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Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Heber, Founder of Matnat Chaim for Kidney Transplants Succombs to Corona

Rabbi Heber 55, was the founder and director of the organization Matnat Chaim which facilitated kidney transplants for those in need. The organization recently celebrated the 800th transplant. 

"Matnat Chaim is an Israeli non-profit dedicated to encouraging healthy volunteers to donate kidneys to patients who require a transplant. None of the kidney donors receive monetary compensation for their donation and most are altruistic donors who do not know their recipients prior to the procedure. The organization functions on a not-for-profit basis; the sole motivation of our volunteers is their desire to help others and save lives." 

https://kilya.org.il/en/

Rabbi Heber himself was a recipient of a kidney transplant and had been ill for about two weeks.

Mayor Aliza Bloch:

"This is an evening of sadness at the tragic death of Rabbi Heber who helped to save 821 lives. Only a few months ago, I participated in a special Shabbat sponsored by Matnat Chaim and learned of the work of this wonderful organization. Each time a resident of Beit Shemesh would donate a kidney thru the work on Matnat Chaim, I would receive a message from Rabbi Heber telling me how important it was to recognize these special people." 

"We send our condolences to the family of the Rabbi, our hearts cry out at this heavy loss."

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Mordechai Marcus ZT”L, Rov of Lakewood Minyan of Flatbush

 Hagaon HaRav Mordechai Marcus ZT”L, the Rov of the Beth Medrash Govoha Minyan (Lakewood Minyan) in Flatbush was nifter this morning .. He was 78 years old.

Rav Marcus, rov of the Lakewood Minyan in Flatbush, was one of Brooklyn’s most prominent talmidei chachomim.

In his younger years, Rav Marcus was a talmid at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yaakov Yosef (RJJ). Even as a young ben Torah, he was already recognized for his brilliance. It was said that even the rabbeim respected Rav Marcus, knowing that in a moment he could refute a sevara or shlog up a shiur.

With a grasp of all of Shas and Shulchan Aruch, Rav Marcus’s breadth and depth of yedios haTorah were breathtaking. His talents and encyclopedic knowledge benefited the ArtScroll Schottenstein Gemara, for which he served as an editor, as well as those who attended his many shiurim.

Equal to his absolute brilliance in Torah, Rav Marcus was as humble a person as one could meet, with sterling middos and deference for every individual, no matter who they were.

Rav Marcus is survived by his rebbetzin and children, bnei Torah and marbitzei Torah, and grandchildren.

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Childhood Rebbe of DIN Rav Shmuel Horowitz Succumbs From Corona

Rav Shmuel Horowitz  right hand man of three Bobover Rebbes ...died from Corona; he was 91 years old ...

Rav Shmuel Horowitz was my childhood rebbe and I had him for 2 years .....

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Chasidic Jew from Monsey leads effort to fight coronavirus

Chaim Lebovits, a Chassidic shoe wholesaler from Monsey, New York, is leading an effort to get the New York City area’s Orthodox Jews who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate their blood plasma en masse, so that it can be used as a therapy by people still battling the coronavirus.

The Forward reported that Lebovits has been working for weeks to create a network of rabbis, religious organizations, virus researchers, health professionals and hospital administrators to educate Orthodox Jews about the benefits of plasma donation, as well as testing them and receiving their blood.

So far, Lebovits said, more than 3,000 people — mostly men — have donated plasma at blood banks around the region, and 6,000 more are being tested on Wednesday to see if they have the antibodies that would enable them to be able to donate plasma.

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Did Zantac Cause Your Cancer?

Rachel exercised regularly, maintained a healthy diet, and had no family history of cancer. But she still got breast cancer and she still died. Rachel’s family and Rachel’s doctors were at a complete loss. It wasn’t until the news about Zantac’s link to cancer swept across the world that it all made sense: it appears that Zantac caused Rachel’s cancer.

Before Rachel passed away, she started researching Zantac’s connection to cancer and what she unearthed was astounding. Valisure, a Connecticut-based laboratory, discovered that Zantac turns into the extremely potent, cancer-causing carcinogen, N-nitrosodimethylamine (“NDMA”) within the body. This carcinogen, which was originally used for rocket fuel, is so potent that its only practical purpose today is to induce tumors in laboratory animals to study cancer!

Even some of the most conservative testing protocols, such as the testing performed by Emery Pharma which did not show as much NDMA as Valisure’s testing, still generated enough NDMA that just one 150mg tablet of Zantac has at least as much carcinogenic impact on the human body as smoking 30 PACKS OF CIGARETTES.

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Stolin Releases Psak To Allow Music During Sefira To Help Uplift Spirits

The Vaad Rabbonim of Karlin-Stolin issued a psak today allowing adherents to be mekel on listening to music during Sefira this year.

The psak comes as schools remain closed for the remainder of the school year and families have been stuck in their homes due to quarantine for over six weeks.

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Zoom Has New Feature To Eliminate Those Who Hack Into Conversations

Zoom is rolling out a new feature to help users fight pervs and trolls who hijack their video meetings.

The videoconferencing company said it will put a new button in its app to let meeting hosts report misbehaving users directly to Zoom’s “Trust and Safety team,” which will evaluate the problem and block the offending user if warranted.

The feature will be included in an update to Zoom’s app due to roll out this Sunday, according to the company. It’s meant to address the phenomenon of “Zoom-bombing,” in which miscreants interrupt virtual meetings by shouting obscenities, displaying bigoted images or putting porn on the screen.

The incidents have plagued schools and government agencies, which have been forced to start using Zoom amid lockdowns meant to curb the coronavirus pandemic. The attacks have occurred often enough in recent weeks that the FBI issued a warning about them last month.

Silicon Valley-based Zoom has an online form where users can report attacks, but the new app feature is meant to make the process easier, according to PC Mag, which first reported on the update.

“That report button will be added to the security menu,” Oded Gal, Zoom’s chief product officer, said in a webinar last week hosted by the Anti-Defamation League. “That helps us capture information about what happened in the meeting.”

Zoom-bombing is one of several security problems the company has had to address as users flocked to its service during the virus crisis. Zoom is facing a shareholder lawsuit over concerns that it lacked adequate data privacy measures and put users at risk of having their information accessed without their permission. The firm has pledged to address security and privacy issues over 90 days in response to such complaints.

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While Monsey Askanim Are Silent About Secret Minyanim .... The Virus in Monsey is Skyrocketing

While Rome is burning, Askanim are playing with their fiddles"

I was on social media yesterday and saw how "leaders" and "askanim"of the Monsey and Rockland County communities are bad mouthing and supporting bullies that are terrorizing those who are begging their neighbors to follow the rules.. not go to minyanim...

Instead of putting their efforts into protecting their constituents that are unfortunately succumbing to the virus, instead of calling out those who are secretly making minyanim, spreading disease and death in Monsey and its environs .... they hang out on social media in an effort to squash dissent ..they say .... Oh that's "Moitzeh Shem Ra" and are personally attacking me for publishing the truth!

One of the askanim was forced to take down his message that warned of the dire consequences of people congregating ...stating that his posting of a threatening photo that Chassidishe terrorists were posting about him and two others was bad mouthing Monsey......hellllllowwww?? Is anyone home? Hey Mr. askin .. if you cannot take the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen... let others that won't be intimidated by these losers take over!

One frum elected leader keeps calling Ed Day an anti-Semite for trying to enforce NYS regulations ....now I am no fan of Ed Day and I actually think he is an anti-semite ..but he didn't kill anyone ... did he? ...... this frum elected leader is a coward because he has yet to make ONE statement that his own constituents are the ones killing their neighbors ......

I understand that they don't want the media to target the frum communities ....now is not the time to deal with this.... now is the time to stop the the spreading of this virus in our community ASAP ... we will deal with the inevitable anti-semites after we catch our collective breath ... 

 Look at the numbers released by NEW YORK STATE ... and weep at what is happening to our community ... people that survived the worst tragedy in Jewish history have succumbed to the virus ... that generation is being decimated with the most painful death .....

Most of this can be prevented .... but the "leaders" are actively covering up for those who are encouraging minyanim and other gatherings .... they refuse to call them out and are trying to intimidate, bully and yes, terrorize people that are trying to stem and minimize the damage ....

Monsey people who unfortunately had the disease are begging and crying that people should adhere to the social distancing regulations...but as long as the "leaders" and "askanim" are deaf to these cries ... and instead fighting against exposing the violaters ... and screaming like fools... "Motze Shem Ra" nothing will be done ! Nothing 

Please G-D ..."When will this misery end?"

Below I highlighted in Red the areas where the frum communities live ...look at the numbers compared to the numbers of the places that aren't inhabited by the frum community..

Stop Minyanim! “We will turn into Boro Park, Lakewood or Monsey,” – Rosh Yeshiva of Aish HaTorah

Message from Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits, Rosh Yeshiva of Aish HaTorah:

“I have been davening on my rooftop (being mitztaref to a minyan down below) from where I get to see the goings on in the area.

The matzav is out of control. People are dreying around without masks, minyanim allegedly keeping to the rules but in reality are nothing more than “kosher style” without masks, krias haTorah is as usual and the two meters observed for Shmoneh Esrei at best. It seems as if people are under the misconception that the government’s decision to allow outdoor minyanim is an “all clear” sign and that the danger is ostensibly over.

Let’s face it, adhering to the rules in a minyan is not so practical and is just not happening.

Even if you believe your minyan is the exception, we must make a statement. 

We must not Chas V’Sholom turn into another Boro Park, Lakewood or Monsey. 

The mashchis has not been mavchin. It has attacked yereim ushleimim, manhigim and roshei yeshiva no less than any other part of the population, if not more. Who has the right to claim bitachon on the cheshbon of chalilah infecting others and endangering their lives?

I urge our kehilla and the entire Anglo community in Eretz Yisroel to go back to the mirpesset minyanim or davening b’yichidus. I am r”l in shloshim for my father hc”m and have yet to daven far amud once. I am sure that in today’s situation, urging the tzibbur to take things seriously is a greater zechus.

Nobody in this world knows if, when and how this is going to end. Gedolei Yisroel will have to determine how to maintain Talmud Torah for young and old without recklessly endangering the tzibbur. The danger of worldwide rifyon is more serious than the threat of Coronavirus, and we do not have the right to be mekil on either front.

For now, I would suggest that all of you are mischazek in your own davening (aren’t 9 and 10AM Shachris minyanim in public during an eis tzarah something of a chilul HaSHeM?) and maintain for yourselves sedorim in your regular learning as well as in sforim that inspire more Ahava and Yirah. And of course, take advantage of everyone homebound in strengthening the family bond.

And May HaSHeM Hear our tefillos and bring not only a yeshuah from the mageifeh, but the geulah sheleimah bimheira.

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Peter Weiss Succumbs to Corona ........ Childhood Friend of DIN

I knew Peter for over 50 years, but I found this hespid in JewishVues that sums it all up ....

by By: Henri Beer

April 13 2020, the third day of Chol hamoed Pesach, will unfortunately always be etched in my heart. That was the day I lost my dear friend R’ Shloime Zev Weiss z”l, affectionately known as Peter. 

I recently heard from R’ Shaul Alter Shlita, Gerrer Rosh Yeshiva, that Pesach is a zman Simcha, and therefore עצבות is prohibited. However לב שברון coupled with שמחה ,is not a contradiction 

Peter and I got to know each other almost 20 years ago. He had the character trait of שווים ופיו לבו .He said it the way he saw it. He wouldn’t mince any words. He gave you the straight scoop. He was a smart man. His advice was on the money, whether you liked it or not He started davening in Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin around the time that Rav Breuer Shlita became Rov of the shul. His love for torah had no bounds and he wanted to absorb all he could from this Talmid Chochom. We started learning bechavrusa about 10 years ago.

 Peter’s knowledge of Torah was immense and his love for Torah was genuine. When we would start our learning, I would often tell him a דבדיחותא מילתא .If I took too long, he would turn to me and say “Herr aufmit die shtissim, lommer lernen a bissel”. 

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"LET THEM EAT ICE CREAM" Nancy Antoinette

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New York Pulls Back Do Not Resuscitate Order Amid Coronavirus

New York State has abruptly nixed a controversial new directive that asked first responders to not work on patients who didn’t have a pulse upon arrival to the scene.

The drastic move was announced by New York State in a memo last week.

Before the change, the protocol was to spend 20 minutes working on patients in cardiac arrest. But according to the state Health Department memo, the decision to roll that back was “necessary during the COVID-19 response to protect the health and safety of EMS providers by limiting their exposure, conserve resources, and ensure optimal use of equipment to save the greatest number of lives.”

New York first responders didn’t take kindly to the new directive, according to The Post.

“They’re not giving people a second chance to live anymore,’’ says Oren Barzilay, who is head of the city union which includes EMTs and paramedics as members.

“Our job is to bring patients back to life. This guideline takes that away from us,” he continued.

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Chassidic Man From Boro Park Appointed As Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary

A Boro Park man was appointed to a top position in the U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday.

Mitchell (Moshe) Silk was appointed as Assistant Treasury Secretary 

by unanimous consent in the U.S. Senate.

Mitchell Allen Silk is a lawyer, author and currently the Assistant Secretary at the United States Department of the Treasury for International Affairs. He is an expert in Chinese law and finance. 

Silk is the first and only Hasidic Jew to hold a US Administration 

senior slot. Silk is fluent in Chinese.

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Mordy Getz Victim of "Chassidishe Bullies" Donates Free Groceries to Widows

You guys remember the post that I posted about the Chassidishe bullies ...from  @kollelniyes ?

So besides targeting Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz & Yaakov Kornblu ... they targeted Mordy Getz (his photo on the poster on left) the owner of New Eichler's on 13th Avenue in Boro Park ...

His crime?
Outing the shuls not following regulations and social distancing! ...

So because he is into Hatzalos Nefashos, saving the lives of the innocent and the elderly ... 
these bullies and Chassidishe terrorists  are trying to destroy the reputation and the livelihood of this Tzaddik ...Mordy Getz .

Here  read a letter from Masbia Soup Kitchen:

To Whom It May Concern:
 Masbia Soup Kitchen is offering any woman widowed due to the C. virus FREE Groceries until the upcoming Rosh Hashana. 
(It is being sponsored by Mordy Getz, the owner of the New Eichler's on 13 Ave. )
The Program is promising a FREE Account in any Grocery Store for Women whose husband's passed away since Purim. The widow should call 252-751-1230 & leave a message.

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Chevra Kadisha Finds Chilling Letter In Corona's Victim Pocket

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Truck with Fruit Tree Driving Thru Beit Shemesh So That Those in Quanatine Can Make a Bracha

Only in Israel ...

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The Story of "Angele" Born in Auschwitz Death Camp and Survived the Holocaust

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Trump authorizes Navy to ‘destroy’ Iranian vessels harassing US ships

President Trump authorized the US Navy to “destroy” any Iranian gunboats if they hound American vessels.

“I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,” the president said in a tweet on Wednesday, without providing more details.

The post comes a week after 11 Iranian gunboats harassed US Navy and Coast Guard ships in the Persian Gulf, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Navy called Iran’s maneuvers “dangerous and provocative.”

The boats, part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy, approached within 10 yards of the Coast Guard cutter Maui, the report said, citing the US Navy.

The US ships responded by sending warnings through bridge-to-bridge radio and blasting horns.

After an hour, the Iranian boats backed off and “opened distance between them.”

The US ships had been conducting military exercises in that section of the Persian Gulf.

Tensions have been elevated in the Persian Gulf region since last year after Iran attacked a Saudi oil installation, shot down a US surveillance drone, and boarded several international ships.

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Mikvahs in Kiryas Yoel Will Open Today ......

Let me describe what a men's mikvah looks like for those who never saw one ..(unless you are a pedifile or a serious sexual predator, you are not missing a thing)

Most Men mikvas have a very large room that accommodates approximately 30 men more or less ....
this room has wooden benches with no back against a wall ... the wall has hooks that one places clothing after getting undressed...
On the floor over the tiles there are slimy wooden slats ...they are slimy because of all the previous dippers that came out of the mikvah ...

The room also has approx 6 -10 open showers depending on the mikvah ... 

Before one enters the water of the single mikva, one is supposed to shower ... there is no privacy .. not in the room, not in the showers and not in the mikvah ...
The body of water called the mikva can accommodate approx 6 naked men ...

After the shower and after one dips into the mikvah....
you go back to the wooden bench and sit with your wet tushi to start the process of getting dressed ... which depending how old you are ..can take up to 5 minutes ...enough time to contract "hoof and mouth" disease or possibly the Corona ..
While the bench is still wet another naked man will sit with his wet tushi on the seat that you just vacated ...

Now that you get the picture, .... believe me.... 
I haven't even begun to describe the scene well ... we can now  discuss the tweet from @mikvapolitics ..

They are reporting that Kiryas Yoel yes the town where their leader just had the virus and whose wife barely survived ... and is still just recovering ... gave a "fatwa" that the Mikvas can now be opened again ....
 Any questions?

Enough said!

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@KollelNiyes Terrorists Continue To Bully Rabbi Horowitz

In a recent tweet Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz wrote that he thinks that it's important to keep the parks open with social distancing rules in place.

In his tweet he attaches a photo of Harriman State Park and adds that he visited the park and it was wonderful to be out in nature ....

So far so good? Right?

You would think ...?

The ignorant Roumanishe Chasidishe buffoons that tweet with the moniker @KollelNiyes took him to task for comparing not opening shuls that are in a closed building with limited space to 

Harriman State Park which has 47,527 acres of open space and includes 200 miles of hiking trails ...

These uneducated (have a 3rd grade maximum education) 

amai-ratzim (are basically ignorant in Talmud) are tweeting that Rabbi Yaakov Horowith is a "Rasha" wicked  for outing their disease infested holes that they call shuls and shteeblich !

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Don't Get a Heart Attack in NY ... "They just let You Die"

New York state just issued a drastic new guideline urging emergency-services workers not to bother trying to revive anyone without a pulse when they get to a scene, amid an overload of coronavirus patients.

While paramedics were previously told to spend up to 20 minutes trying to revive people found in cardiac arrest, the change is “necessary during the COVID-19 response to protect the health and safety of EMS providers by limiting their exposure, conserve resources, and ensure optimal use of equipment to save the greatest number of lives,’’ according to a state Health Department memo issued last week.

First-responders were outraged over the move.

“They’re not giving people a second chance to live anymore,’’ Oren Barzilay, head of the city union whose members include uniformed EMTs and paramedics, fumed of state officials.

“Our job is to bring patients back to life. This guideline takes that away from us,” he said.

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Clearing Up the Confusing Corona Rules in 4 minute Video

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