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רבינו יונה באגרת התשובה (בסוף היום הראשון):

ולא ישעה בדברי חולין בבית הכנסת וכל המספר בעסקיו בבית הכנסת כל זמן ששליח צבור מתפלל תחת בו גערת הברורים וגם כל הקהל חייבים להוכיח ולחשוך אותו מחטוא לשם יתברך עדי עד וכל היצורים נבראו לכבוד השם יתברך, ואם יפנה לבבך ולא תשמע בשעה שמשבחים לפניו ומספרים תהלותיו ועזוזו ונפלאותיו, איה הכבוד ואיה המורא, אף כי המספר בעת ההיא שיחת חולין גדול עונו מנשוא.

גירסה שונה מעט כאן.

A reader writes to the editor:

[re Corona etc.] “… I’m doing my best to hang on. I do not think this ends until the entire fiat monetary system collapses into dust. At that point, the “constitutional” law systems of the goyim will be obliterated completely and their societies will disintegrate as they will have nothing culturally to fall back on.

“And we will have to fall back on the Torah. In a very real way, The Torah is the only thing that can keep this country together. The zionists will fall with the rest of the paper money, and we will have to figure out what we are going to do.

“Geula is scary as hell.”

So, we all need a Doula’s New-Mommy Course!

• You need to deliberately “lean into it”.
• View the pain as the direct price for the upcoming gift (or “baby”).
• Utilize the breaks in between contractions to the maximum.
• Stay present (try to refuse\delay extreme drugs…).
• Keep breathing deeply by the clock.
• Express your fears.
• Remember the Adrenaline.
• Etc.

Don’t let the natural fear confuse you!

(Not that I’m any better at following these instructions than others! Still, I feel obligated to use this platform to state the obvious.)

The Sfas Emes says that every Jew (including a child) has in him a G-dly Force which is very much alive.

Just to illustrate, I know someone who deals with geirim. He shared an incredible phenomenon that he has witnessed countless times. When a convert davens mincha before conversion he will be standing still as a stone, yet when he davens maariv, (after just having had his conversion) he will be swaying back and  forth…

A teenage friend had virus-like symptoms and a sore throat. He also got the silly automatic call (חקירות אפידמיולוגיות טכנולוגיות) from the Shabak spies because his phone passed next to a “confirmed” Corona patient. So, he was told to stay far away from the “selfless” government doctors and just wait (and wait and wait…!) for a Corona test. And stay under lockdown.

He refused the test (אכמ”ל) but stayed inside. Meanwhile, he wasn’t getting better. Then a relative had the unoriginal idea of looking down his throat. One glance and it turned out he has strep, not Corona. But he was not being treated with antibiotics, because he was never even examined, let alone tested…

Streptococcus is a lot more dangerous than Shekerona!

(Of course, no matter what happened, you can be sure this would become a Corona statistic. Heaven help us.)

Moral: Corona excepted, you are on your own. More so than ever.

P.S., I’m too upset to do this scandal justice here (and I’m probably getting details wrong).