Year: 2020

A Corona Cure?

Sent in by a trusted reader:

A friend told me the following:

“Around Pesach time, one of my neighbors was on his way to the hospital with a serious case of Coronavirus. I had heard about Quercetin taken together with Zinc and ran over to give it to him (along with Vitamin C). After a few hours, he asked to be released.

SINCE THEN I HAVE GIVEN QUERCETIN AND ZINC TO OVER 40 PEOPLE WITH CORONAVIRUS WITH STUNNING RESULTS.

Just yesterday I received a phone call from someone who felt so sick that he said he never felt sicker in his life. At 4 pm he took Quercetin taken together with Zinc and by 9 pm he said he didn’t even feel sick.
This is a scenario that has repeated itself over and over.
This is the protocol:
-Take 250 mg of Quercetin for every 10 kilos of body weight, (most quality quercetin comes with 250 mg of quercetin for each tablet, along with vitamin c)  AS WELL AS one or two zinc tablets (30 mg each)
That’s all it takes to get the above results- just one large dose. I do recommend taking a smaller dose each day for the next few days”
May Hashem send a refuah shleima to all who need
(BTW, I do not sell Quercetin or Zinc)
Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor, and this is not intended as medical advice.

How a Sterile Heter Is Born: Taz Even Ha’ezer 5:6

The Prohibition Against Sterilizing Animals

This entry was posted on June 27, 2017

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I wanted to put my answer to you in writing. The question was concerning neutering a female dog, and my answer was that it was unequivocally forbidden. I will first reproduce Maimonides’s codification here, and then point out some notes introduced in the Shulhan Aruch and the commentaries, and then I will present the reasons as to why the decisors reject the Taz’s loophole for allowing neutering, and why I believe Rabbi ***** is mistaken in his analysis and conclusion. I would also like to say at the outset that it is beyond the scope of this response to go into the permissibility of saving an animal’s life through sterilization, as it is even the case that we may save a man’s life if it necessitates castrating him. I am only addressing the question of neutering the dog because the owner wants to prevent it from producing litters.

Forbidden Relations, Chapter 16:

It is forbidden to destroy a male’s reproductive organs. This applies to humans and also to animals, beasts, and fowl, both from a kosher species and from a non-kosher species, in the land of Israel and in the Diaspora… Whoever castrates [a person or an animal] should be lashed according to Scriptural Law everywhere. Even a person who castrates a person who has been castrated should be lashed… A person who castrates a female – whether a human or other species – is not liable.

Note this last line. This is not permissible. It is just not punished by a human court.

Continue reading…

From Rabbi Avi Grossman, here.

The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad ‘Deal of the Century’

למה יהודים מופתעים על העברות השטחים שבעסקת המאה של נשיא ארה”ב טראמפ? / Why are Jews so Surprised by the Land Giveaway in President Trump’s Deal of the Century?

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Translation of Jerusalem Vice-Mayor Arieh King’s Facebook post (above):
Yossi Sarid and Shulamit Aloni are somewhere in high spirits, seeing their political opponents implementing their own political platform:
1. Division of Jerusalem.
2. Connecting the Gaza Strip to Judea and Samaria.
3. Freeze Jewish construction.
4. Establishment of a Muslim enemy state on 70% of Judea and Samaria.
5. Giving territories in the western Negev to the new Muslim state.
6. Right of Return (of Arabs to the Land of Israel).

Leading Israeli rabbis:
Arutz 7: ‘Sovereignty has become the new excuse for tearing apart the Holy Land’
Group of over 400 leading Israeli rabbis embarks on campaign to inform the public of shortcomings and dangers of the ‘Deal of the Century.’

Arutz Sheva Staff , 28/05/20

The Rabbinical Congress for Peace, comprised of over 400 leading Israeli rabbis, have completed their appraisal of the current plan to apply sovereignty over Jewish communities in the Land of Israel – proudly presented by Prime Minister Netanyahu as part of the “Deal of the Century.” In response, the Council has decided to embark upon a widespread public campaign to inform the Israeli public of the plan’s shortcomings and dangers.

“We give our ready blessing to any plan that seeks to establish Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel, which were promised us in our Holy Torah,” states the Council. “However, as long as the plan is based upon the equation ‘sovereignty over one territory in exchange for renunciation of control over another,’ it no longer matters who lives in that area. The loss is much greater than the profit and the danger outweighs the benefits.”

“The general public is confused by all of the announcements and maps they are presented with, and fail to see that the plan is a replay of the great mistake of Oslo and the disengagement,” said Rabbi Abraham Shmuel Lewin, secretary of the Congress. “In the final analysis, all these compromises and declarations stand in direct opposition to the eternal truth of the Torah, which is also the simplest and most logical to prove – that any concession of full Israeli control of the land, even if only at the ‘declarative level,’ strengthens the will and ability of our enemies to attain further concessions through acts of terrorism and murder, exactly as happened after the Oslo Accords and the disengagement from Gaza.”

“Israel’s enemies care little as to how we define the settlements. From their perspective, Jaffa and Haifa also belong to them,” said Rabbi Abraham Schreiber, rabbi of the Kfar Darom Congregation in the Negev. “But there is one thing that they do care deeply about – that the Israeli government declares certain territories to no longer part be of Greater Israel. This declaration then becomes the Palestinians’ starting point for future negotiations. In their eyes, this is proof that Israel has already surrendered and agreed to a Palestinian state on seventy percent of Judea and Samaria, and that Israeli communities will have to live within it in hopeless enclaves. Why not continue their terrorist activities to attain the rest of their goals?” (cont.)

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
I really hope that every Jew can finally see the writing on the wall. The Jews who idolize Trump, the Jews who believe he’s the best president for Israel, and the Jews who believe that a close alliance (read: dependence) on the U. S. is our best hope, must snap out of it.

Most all U. S. presidents have been bad for Israel in one way or another, but forcing the establishment of yet another Arab terrorist state takes the cake.

There are Jews who are surprised by the land giveaways in the Deal of the Century.

And there are Jews who prefer to remain in denial about it.

Still there are plenty of “right-wing” Jews who actually believe this “deal” to be good for the Jews.

All of the above are delusional.

I will only add that 15 Jewish towns in Yehudah and Shomron (Judea and Samaria) will be isolated within a “Palestinian” state. Without some serious ideological motivation, how many Jews will actually stick around? Will the Israeli government be successful, or even willing, to provide the necessary resources to protect these “enclaves?”

A four year building freeze will be in force on Jews, but not on Arabs. The map of land transfers will be a final border map, whether the Arabs agree or not. (From Haggai Huberman via Women in Green)

Meanwhile, perhaps the U. S. is incurring punishment for ripping the Land of Israel apart. ie. The Riots.

The Land of Israel is simply not ours to chop into pieces and give it away.

And what about the Temple Mount?

To be continued…

דברי רבנו הנודע ביהודה בלאו סירוס בהמות

מתוך דרושי הצל”ח, דרוש ד’ לשבת תשובה אות י”ג:

הוגד לי רעה חולה, איך שיהודי אחד בכאן סירס בידים בהמתו וזהו לאו מפורש ואיסור דאורייתא וחיוב מלקות, אמרתי אפשר שאין איסור זה מפורסם ואפשר נכשלים בו הרבה ממגדלי בהמות הן שורים הן סוסים אפילו לצוות לא”י שיסרס אסור, וזהו דין מפורש בשו”ע באבן העזר אסור לומר לא”י לסרס בהמה שלנו, ואפילו למכור לא”י בהמה בלתי מסורסת יש אוסרים בשו”ע פן יסרסנה.

ועיין מ”ש על סירוס בהערמה מכוערת כאן (באנגלית).

 

OPINION: The Charedi Denial of Reality

Copied from the Kedushas Tzion forum (translation added by a reader):

An important point is being clarified here:

From time to time it becomes clearer, that the main difference between those who have woken up to see the within the current reality at least minimal redemptional processes, and those who have not yet merited to sober up to such a fact, is the connection to the visible reality.

Those who see here a process of redemption are strongly claiming, and rightly so, that there is no other explanation for that which is happening before our eyes, so now we will have to find a reference to it from our [Torah] sources, even if it is not the ideal salvation about which we have been educated to yearn for.

On the other end stands the classic Chareidi, and he is having trouble digesting how it is possible to have salvation in some other way than we were accustomed to expect; and if [it seems to be redemption] because the diaspora is being ingathered and the Jewish community of Israel is powerful over themselves, this is not redemption. What is it? Call it what you want, a “test”, just God’s mercy, and a variety of other ways to explain it away.

The sharp difference is, do we attribute so much weight to the spiritual dimension that is above nature, that it stands by itself even if the tangible physical reality denies it?

In other words, those who deny the “redemptional” dimension of the events of the last hundred years, claim that the Torah and [those traditions which are] what has been handed down to us Torah Jews, are stronger than anything, and no lowly physical reality will be able to undermine, so to say, the reality of the Torah.

However, in truth, this does not stem from an increased grasp of and handle on the Torah, but rather on a decreased grasp of and handle on the tangible physical reality. Because in truthfulness, if they were sufficiently attached to the tangible reality, it would be quite easy to resolve the matter [with the Torah].

Upon examination, you will find that these kinds of distortions are the inheritance of Ashkenazi Judaism only, more specifically the Chassidish and Litvish (with the exception of the German).

That is why it seems the reason for this is [and I have already hinted at this in the past], the tremendous revelations that the Chassidim and Litvaks had, by a variety of high souls that came down to them, and made substantial revolutions, starting with the Baal Shem Tov and the Gr”a, continuing with the variety of the great Chassidic masters, and Rabbi Yisrael Salter and his disciples, up until the revolution in the study method of R’ Chaim of Brisk.

All these have merited, and through them the spiritual reality has intensified sevenfold as the morning light and has received much heavier and more tangible weight than what Judaism had contained in the past years, and from what it contains among those who have not been exposed to these manifestations, which are the Sephardim and those similar to them.

From the much light and brightness of the spiritual reality, and from the true feeling that this is the dominant reality far more than the physical reality that is derived from and is activated by the spiritual reality, it has been ingrained in us that the physical reality does not really exist at a level that should really be taken into account, and to understand from it the events of the world, and that is why the physical reality has lost its credence for examining the overall reality, and it is not used as an image of anything [such as the Redemption].

But, in truthfulness, it is clear that this is a mistake, and together with the strengthening of the tangibility of the spiritual reality, we must not lose eye contact with the physical reality, because the Creator housed us in our physical beings in order to recognize Him through them and to sanctify Him through them according to their level.

It is possible to continue and to explain with this concept many natures and distortions that characterize the Charedi community, but for now, I will suffice with this.

 

מתחדדת כאן נקודה חשובה:

כפעם בפעם מתברר, שעיקר ההבדל בין אלה שהתפכחו לראות במציאות הנוכחית תהליכי גאולה כלשהם, ובין אלה שעדיין לא זכו להתפכח, הוא החיבור למציאות הנראית.

אלה שרואים כאן תהליכי גאולה טוענים בתוקף, ובצדק, שאין הסבר אחר למתחולל לנגד עינינו, ומעתה נצטרך למצוא סימוכין לכך ממקורותינו, גם אם זאת לא הגאולה האידיאלית שאליה חונכנו לייחל.

מן הצד שני נצב החרדי הקלאסי, והוא מתקשה לעכל איך תתיכן גאולה בצורה אחרת ממה שהרגילונו לצפות לה, ואם משום שהגלויות מתקבצות ויד ישראל תקיפה על עצמן, אין זאת הגאולה, מה כן? מה שאתה רוצה, נסיון, סתם חסד ה’ ועוד שלל תירוצים מגוונים.

הרי שההבדל החד הוא, האם אנו מייחסים למימד הרוחני שהוא מעל הטבע משקל כה רב, עד שהוא עומד בפני עצמו גם אם המציאות המוחשית מכחישה זאת.

כלומר, אלה הטוענים לשלילת המימד הגאולתי מן המאורעות של מאה השנים האחרונות, טוענים, התורה ומה שמקובלנו חזק יותר מכל דבר, ושום מציאות גשמית פחותה לא תצליח לערער כביכול את מציאות התורה.

אלא שאליבא דאמת, אין זה נובע מהיאחזות יתר בתורה, אלא מהיאחזות חסר במציאות המוחשית. כיון שאליבא דאמת, אם הם היו מספיק מחוברים למציאות המוחשית, בקל היה אפשר ליישב.

לכי תידוק, תשכח, שעיוותים מסוג זה הוא נחלת היהדות האשכנזית בלבד, ולייתר דיוק החסידית והליטאית בלבד [להוציא את הייקית].

משום כך נראה טעם הדבר [וכבר רמזתי עליו בעבר], כי באמצעות הגילויים האדירים שהיו לחסידים והליטאים ע”י שלל נשמות גבוהות שירדו אליהם וחוללו מהפכות של ממש, החל ממרן הבעש”ט והגר”א, עובר לשלל ענקי החסידות לדורותיהם, ורבי ישראל סלנטר ותלמידיו, ועד המפכה בשיטת הלימוד של מרן הגר”ח מבריסק.

כל אלה זכו, ועל ידם התעצמה בנו המציאות הרוחנית שבעתיים כאור הבוקר, וקיבלה משקל הרבה יותר כבד ומוחשית הרבה יותר ממה שהכילה היהדות בשנים עברו, וממה שהיא מכילה בקרב אלה שלא נחשפו לגילויים אלה, שהם הספרדים והדומים לה.

מרוב אור ובוהק של המציאות הרוחנית, ומן התחושה האמיתית שהיא המציאות הדומיננטית הרבה יותר מן המציאות הגשמית שהיא בסך נגזרת מן המציאות הרוחנית ונפעלת על ידה, התנחלה בקרבנו שהמציאות הגשמית אינה ממש קיימת ברמה שצריך ממש להתחשב בה, ולהבין ממנה מאורעות תבל, ומשום כך איבדה המציאות הגשמית את כשרותה לבחינת המציאות הכוללת, והיא אינה משמשת כבבואה לשום דבר.

אלא, דאליבא דאמת, ברור שזו טעות, ויחד עם התעצמות מוחשיות המציאות הרוחנית, אל לנו לאבד קשר עין עם המציאות הגשמית, כי הבורא שיכן אותנו בבתי חומר כדי להכירו על ידם ולהקדישו בם כפי ערכם.

אפשר להאריך בזה, ולבאר על פי יסוד זה המון טבעים ועיוותים הנמצאים ומאפיינים את הציבור החרדי, אך לע”ע אסתפק בזה.