Q&A: Rabbi Lando’s Ruling
Rabbi Lando’s Ruling
Question
Amit Segal published:
In violation of Home Front Command guidelines prohibiting gatherings: Rabbi Lando instructs that studies in yeshivas from age 16 and up should proceed as usual.
During the coronavirus period, when Rabbi Kanievsky said to open the Torah schools, you suggested that it was because of a lack of understanding of exponential growth.
What do you think it stems from now?
Answer
I didn’t understand the question. If the report is correct (and even if it isn’t), he is an infantile fool, like his predecessor. The problem is that instead of putting him in prison, they keep letting him incite and lead people astray. And his idiotic flock keeps following him like blind people down a chimney. See my latest column on this (720).
Discussion on Answer
The cases are not similar. During the coronavirus period there was danger to others. In this case the danger is to the person himself.
When they instruct the yeshivas to open, the danger is to all the students who are forced to come. If, God forbid, there is a mass-casualty event because of this and the hospitals collapse under the overload of wounded, would you still say that the danger is only to the person himself?
You could decide in advance that whoever doesn’t follow the guidelines will be at the bottom of the queue, and let everyone do as they see fit.
I now saw that he instructed this only if there is a protected space. I don’t know which yeshiva has such a space for everyone. In any case, if that is so, then it is much less severe. It is against the law, but not very problematic.
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What showed up here again is not an understanding of exponential processes, but of the categorical imperative.