In here, Rav Brandsdorfer cites a halacha calling for a fast during a mageifah/epidemic. However, when last year the Chief Rabbanut did this, they were criticized by several Gedolim, who cited the Gemara which says in times of a plague, we do not fast...
"The Shomrei Emunim are characterized by fervent and visibly emotional prayer, and by a rigid lifestyle controlled largely by "takanos" - decrees written by the Rebbe. One such decree, for example, forbade wearing wool. (Jewish law forbids wearing anything that contains both wool and linen. Rabbi Aharon worried that it would be safest not to wear wool at all, in order to avoid the possibility of violating the law altogether.)[1] A strong emphasis is placed on the importance of full-time Torah study, and daily immersion in ritual baths".
https://www.amimagazine.org/2020/04/01/coronavirus-as-seen-through-the-prism-of-halachah-emunah/
ReplyDeleteIn here, Rav Brandsdorfer cites a halacha calling for a fast during a mageifah/epidemic. However, when last year the Chief Rabbanut did this, they were criticized by several Gedolim, who cited the Gemara which says in times of a plague, we do not fast...
So which is correct?
"The Shomrei Emunim are characterized by fervent and visibly emotional prayer, and by a rigid lifestyle controlled largely by "takanos" - decrees written by the Rebbe. One such decree, for example, forbade wearing wool. (Jewish law forbids wearing anything that contains both wool and linen. Rabbi Aharon worried that it would be safest not to wear wool at all, in order to avoid the possibility of violating the law altogether.)[1] A strong emphasis is placed on the importance of full-time Torah study, and daily immersion in ritual baths".
ReplyDeleteNo wool?
Taz -chachamim cannot forbid what the Torah permits
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Wool is permitted. They - toldot are not forbidding shaatnez, but pure wool.