Shabbat and Halacha, permanent rabbi, re-repentant
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Shalom Rabbi Shlita,
I wanted to ask you a question about Halacha and a little more, I think you don’t like to deal with this style of questions, but still.
A girl who is about 11th grade, converts and grows up in a secular home where everyone in the house is on the screens on Shabbat, suffers from symptoms of depression and suicidal thoughts (cuts herself secretly, without anyone knowing after they think she has given up on it, etc., on a weekday, not on Shabbat due to the desecration of Shabbat, as she says).
Due to the situation with the Corona virus, she is at home with all the family members in quarantine under one roof, and it is difficult for her because of the loneliness and thoughts… She wants to leave the TV on on Shabbat Eve throughout the entire Shabbat day. (I assume it is a secular channel with Awsha, Marait Ein and everything). On a regular Shabbat, she is with friends and at the local church, etc., so she is not forced to do so.
What does the rabbi think about these things at this time? Is it permissible? Is it appropriate? Is it forbidden?
She is also looking to have a permanent rabbi (today she sees herself as part of the Mizrahi community (I understand the Baal Beit style) presumably this will be via the internet and the telephone. Does the rabbi know one like that?
With greetings and thanks,
K.
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Well, thank you very much, I sent her the email, she has a reluctance to talk on the phone. I assume it's also subconsciously much more open…
Of course, if it's as she says, she needs to share with a psychological factor and for her parents to know about it, but she doesn't want to share with her parents because she feels that it causes them unnecessary grief, and they don't know how to deal with her feelings as she expects, instead of accommodating, etc. They treat her like crazy and deprive her of her freedom.
I'm completely unfamiliar with their circles, and she feels like a national religious and an organization like Hidabrot, for example, is too Haredi for her, in religion”t belonging to more dull sectors.
excellent
Thanks,
I understand she sent you an email or something a while ago. I'm writing this so you can connect the dots.
Just after I sent you this, I came across a post called "Halakhic Reliefs in the Days of Corona and Shavran," and the questions there are actually somewhat related to the case of Didan. But I don't know her or her situation. And from the little she argued to me, it's puzzling to me that they would say that the situation there is worse than the situation here. And as you commented on the pico there.
I understand. We're in touch.
Hello Rabbi,
(It would be a shame if you should delete the message after you read it), but I spoke to her now, it sounds like she wants to call you but on the other hand she has great reluctance and fear of calling. However, she is planning in the very next few minutes.
Her main fear is that the Rabbi will judge her, and as if “even a Rabbi is not willing to understand me” , and then it will “really finish me off” “I will be a loser”. “And I understand that there is no chance of me finding anyone who is willing to listen”.
I don't think the situation is suicidal on the immediate level, but it is clear that there is some kind of immense pain here, at the level of causing personal harm in order to alleviate it.
Everything is fine. We talked.
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