http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/278833
Rabbinic leader says it's
still better to pray alone if precautions cannot be maintained in group
prayer, after restrictions loosened.
The dean of the Ponivezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and the president of Degel Hatorah’s Council of Torah Sages, Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, urged his students to be stringent and pray individually if precautions cannot maintained, despite the government's decision loosening restrictions on public prayer.
The government on Sunday morning adopted new guidelines for dealing with the coronavirus, including permission to hold prayer groups of up to 19 people, at a distance of up to 500 meters from one's residence or place of work and in an open area, with a distance of at least 2 meters between people.
The dean of the Ponivezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and the president of Degel Hatorah’s Council of Torah Sages, Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, urged his students to be stringent and pray individually if precautions cannot maintained, despite the government's decision loosening restrictions on public prayer.
The government on Sunday morning adopted new guidelines for dealing with the coronavirus, including permission to hold prayer groups of up to 19 people, at a distance of up to 500 meters from one's residence or place of work and in an open area, with a distance of at least 2 meters between people.
Here's the 2 problems
ReplyDelete1) The 2m rule is an invention. There's no science behind it. Some WHO folks thought it would be a good idea and seemed like a decent distance to maintain so they ordained it. But with a good cough or sneeze, or even just a loud Aha!, the virus can travel further than that. So the 2m precaution is worthless
2) Seriously, the same folks who, in the middle of the worse of the outbreak, refused to stop gathering, are going to hold to the 2m rule anyway?