Q&A: A Fast Day בעקבות the Coronavirus
A Fast Day Following the Coronavirus
Question
What does the Rabbi think about the fast day that was established Following the coronavirus virus?
Answer
I have nothing to say. Doing some soul-searching is always beneficial. My concern is the foolishness that comes along with it, as if because of this the plague will pass.
Discussion on Answer
To the best of my recollection, you didn’t ask it that way.
Benjamin Gurlin, if coronavirus overrides the Fast of Esther, then all the more so, the grandson of an all-the-more-so, it certainly would not obligate new fasts. Isn’t that so?
Haim, it is revealed and known before him (Rabbi Michi) that my intention was to the Magen Avraham, section 576, subsection 2, who comments on the words of the Rema, that although originally a fast is proclaimed because of a plague epidemic, doctors reject such a fast, since it is harmful and one might specifically become infected by the plague because of it!!!
P.S. Your all-the-more-so is not understood, nor how you derived it from my words…
Benjamin:
https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%AA%D7%A2%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%AA%D7%A8-%D7%95%D7%97%D7%A9%D7%A9-%D7%9C%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94
I asked exactly this question on Sunday and didn’t receive an answer… ? ?