Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Son of Rabbi Yaacov Yosef) Against COVID and ‘Flu’ Shots

Rav Ovadia Yosef Drops a Bomb + New Torah Class

Rav Ovadia Yosef, son of Rav Yaacov Yosef, grandson of the former Chief Rabbi of Israel whose name he bears, has a weekly radio program on which he takes questions from callers.  Two weeks ago a caller brought up the covid and “flu” shots, and the fact that we hear many, many instances of heart attacks, including among children and yeshiva students, the likes of which we never heard of until now.  The caller asked what Rav Yosef had to say about this and all the terrifying things that are happening.
Rav Yosef replied that “shev v’al ta’aseh adif”, which means that in cases of doubt such as these it is better to take no action, rather than actively do something which might cause harm.  He continued that vaccines in general are a positive thing (sigh), but the recent shots were not sufficiently tested, and there are many problems with them.  Therefore, it’s better to take no action — in other words, to refrain from taking the shots.
This is what I and others were shouting from the rooftops from day one, although it’s been a long time since there was any reasonable doubt.  It’s long past time that more rabbis who aren’t actively working for the enemy do justice to their titles, and state in no uncertain terms that these shots are as forbidden as a Zyklon B shower.  (The person who shared this video with me speculated that Rav Yosef has to be very careful about what he says on Israeli public radio, even as he tries to make it clear that people should not take the shots.)
Rav Yosef then added that he knows explicitly that NONE of the grandchildren of Rav Chaim Kanievsky took the shots. He then repeated this emphatically.
The host of the radio program (whose screen must have been flashing “Red Alert!) quickly said that we rely on the instructions of the Ministry of Health, and that of course there is another side to this.
“We are confused,” replied Rav Yosef ambiguously, and they went to the next call.
The clip (in Hebrew) is available here.
On some level it is a bombshell to be told with such certainty, by a rabbi who is in a position to know, that none of Rav Kanievsky’s grandchildren took the shots, when the government and the media they control so heavily leveraged the Kanievsky name to push the accursed shots. Numerous propaganda outlets “reported” the non-existent ruling from Rav Kanievsky.
Of course, they were not actually reporting, but regurgitating what they were given to publish, touching it up a little to make it slightly different from what their colleagues in other propaganda offices were publishing for their targeted populations.  They did not investigate or perform actual journalism; the government fed them information and instructions, and they dutifully “reported” it as fact.
When will any of these “media” outlets report this extremely relevant revelation about Rav Kanievsky’s grandchildren, spoken clearly from a credible source?
When will people who lie for a living become trustworthy?  Never.
The truth is that this charade should never have gotten off the ground.  Contrary to the belief of ignorant masses and dishonest people looking to push an agenda, a tortured one-word reply to a leading question shouted in someone’s ear in a staged video does not constitute a halachic ruling, let alone a ruling that is actually binding on anyone, let alone a ruling that is binding on the entire Jewish people.
In other words, whatever the “media” was reporting in the name of Rav Kanievsky had exactly zero halachic significance.  It was all just a bunch of hot air and rhetoric.
Furthermore, even if, theoretically, all of his grandchildren did take the shots — even if they had an IV drip from the finest German pharmaceutical companies so they could be the first to take every new shot and every new booster for every conceivable medical concern — it would also have exactly zero halachic significance.
Judaism is not a cult.  Those who browbeat people with the recently invented notion of “Da’as Torah”, which has become nothing more than a virtue-signaling, kosherized form of “just following orders”, might as well be idolaters, for it is not Hashem they are serving.
There is a time and place for rabbis to adjudicate matters of doubt and offer guidance — provided that they have acquired the requisite knowledge of the matter, studied the specific question carefully from multiple angles, and arrived at an honest, independent conclusion, which they have substantiated so that they their ruling can be studied and critiqued.
Sometimes these rulings are binding on an individual, and sometimes these rulings are even binding on a community that has empowered the rabbi or local Beis Din to adjudicate for them.
Under no circumstances can a rabbi — even a pious and scholarly rabbi — simply make a declaration as if it is God’s word from Sinai.  Anyone who pretends otherwise is distorting the very foundations of the Torah, and is either a brainwashed cultist or a heretic.  Rabbis who mislead the people in this fashion are evil and should be banished from the community until such time as we have the power to judge them and punish them as they deserve, may it be soon.
So, on the one hand, this revelation from Rav Yosef is very important, because it might wake up some people about how they have been misled, and then maybe more dominoes can fall.
On the other hand, we should all have enough of a true Torah education not to fall for cheap propaganda orchestrated by the Erev Rav establishment, and tailored by phony rabbis placed in positions of influence specifically to mislead the Jewish people.
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Don’t just follow “Da’as Torah”; learn the Torah, really learn it. The more actual knowledge you have, the better equipped you will be to ask intelligent questions, evaluate answers, and tell the difference between a genuine rabbi and a corrupt phony.
When we care enough to acquire the knowledge, we should merit to have genuine rabbis and true Jewish leaders to guide us properly.

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re: Afghani State Restores Punishment for Some of Sheva Mitzvos, to Our Shame

Critical letter received for this headline of a few days ago:

Indeed, it would be for mankind and for Jewish society if courts enforced Torah law, including the prescribed punishments. However, we must only wish to see it when it is carried out by proper Noahide courts. Somehow I doubt that which is done throughout the Islamic world, especially the part about making the execution a blood-thirsty spectacle for the masses, not exactly what the sages had in mind.

Remarks (going beyond a simple response), מקופיא:
No, I wouldn’t call the Taliban a fully Noahide court, but hey, “beggars can’t be choosers”!
My point is Mohammedans are copying (albeit inaccurately) from the Jewish Torah to our own discomfiture. If the Taliban can muster enough “Consent of the Governed” to restore Sharia law, what is wrong with us?!
Still, we shouldn’t mimic them in return. Some Cursedians believe the bastard Diaper-Deity “fulfilled” the whole Torah for them, so they have no-fault divorces instead of death for adultery, and fake “forgiveness” instead of justice. Let’s not allow them to influence us, either.
What is the common punishment in the “Enlightened” world for, say, intentional murder?
If Chai kills Matan (get it?), Matan’s relatives (among others) are forcibly granted the privilege to slave away via taxation to pay for imprisoning, feeding, educating, and exercising Chai (including arrest, a government lawyer, prosecution, etc., not to mention all the “overhead expenses” the government skims off the top). Unless Chai was killing settlers for the government, and\or belongs to the elite, of course.
Is the Israeli regime policy, then, “what the sages had in mind“?!

Many of those who mock, condemn, and monger fear against the Taliban would do the same to loyal Jews if and when we are ever righteous enough to restore anything similar, even if not as far-reaching!

In short, the Taliban are “running interference” for the Jews…

(The famous Chazon Ish Y. D. 2:17 is referring to “Moridin”. I am aware there is far more nuance to this, but this here is a web log, not parchment.)

And why is “making the execution a blood-thirsty spectacle for the masses” not a hiddur mitzvah of the true Torah’s deterrence strategy: “למען ישמעו ויראו”?! Isn’t it important to preserve some fear: עבוד מיראה ועבוד מאהבה וכולי?!

By the way, although an on-the-books death penalty doesn’t deter murderers, the rate of actual, (preferably public) executions does, in fact, deter murderers (see Dr. Walter Block’s executive summary of a revolutionary, new study of the numbers).

Hyehudi Chanuka Compilation (English)

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The Mysteries of a Miscarriage (Sample from Upcoming Sefer by Rabbi Yehoshua Alt)

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Miscarriages

It is known that many married couples have experienced miscarriages. How should they view this? What is the Torah outlook?

R’ Moshe Shapiro taught that the neshama of a miscarriage is a child that belongs to the parents, and not a random neshama that descended from heaven for a tikun (rectification). Furthermore, the suffering of the parents, especially the mother, is an intrinsic part of the tikun of the child. This knowledge, that there is a real connection to the fetus and that the suffering was not in vain, can in itself be a comfort.[1]

Here are the comforting and inspiring words of R’ Moshe Wolfson, who wrote the following in a letter to a woman that had a miscarriage:

In Heaven there is a heichal ha’neshamos — a Sanctuary of Souls — the source from which all the souls come. The final redemption will not come until all souls have left this sanctuary and descended to this world.[2] Each soul has its own unique mission to fulfill in this world and is allotted the lifespan necessary to fulfill that mission.

Some souls belong to a very exalted class. They are of such a sublime nature, so holy, sparkling, and brilliant, that they simply cannot bear to exist in this world for even a short time. However, they too must leave the Sanctuary of Souls so that it will be emptied, and for other reasons known only to Hashem. And so Hashem chooses a particular couple that will draw such a soul down to this world.

It departs its place near the Throne of Glory and is immediately placed in an environment in which it is at home — an environment that is divine in nature. A woman who is with the child carries within herself not only a child, but an entire Garden of Eden as well. A flame from the hidden light of creation shines above the child’s head, and by that light the child sees from one end of the world to the other.

A heavenly angel learns the entire Torah with the child.[3] All this occurs with every Jewish child. However, those special souls of which we have spoken cannot bear to separate themselves from their sublime existence by living in this earthly world. And so they are spared this discomfort and are returned to their Father in Heaven, having fulfilled their mission by leaving the Sanctuary of Souls and residing within their mother, thus bringing the world one step closer to the Final Redemption…

This woman merited to have had as her guest a pure, holy soul accompanied by a divine light, a heavenly angel, and a heavenly Torah. The Master of the Universe had created a beis midrash, a study hall, for this soul within her. And when this soul left her, some of the holiness that had entered her remained, and will not leave her for the rest of her life.

She has merited to bring Moshiach’s arrival closer by offering a sacrifice for this purpose. She is not left with a mother’s usual compensation, but rather all that she has endured has been for the sake of Hashem and His people, not for her personal joy and satisfaction. She has served, not as a worker who awaits immediate payment, but as a loyal soldier, who is ready to suffer wounds in battle, if necessary, solely for the glory of the King…

[1] The Remak (Shiur Komah, 54. Shomer Emunim, Maamar Hashgacha Pratis 15) elucidates that miscarriages serve as a rectification for that which occurred in a previous gilgul. He also explains that the anguish of a lost child that the parents undergo is also part of the calculation. And so Hashem brings everyone under one roof and thereby the necessary rectifications are completed.

[2] See Yevamos 62a.

[3] See Nida 30b.

 

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