https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/283070
Rabbi Yitzhak Koldetzki, the son-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky,
called for a gathering of supplications and prayer in order to prevent
the further deterioration of those who spend their days in yeshivas, Kikar Hashabbat reported.
Due to closures caused by the coronavirus outbreak, yeshiva students -
like other students - have spent only minimal time in their yeshiva
settings over the past few months. As a result, parents and educators
are struggling in the face of a reality in which the spiritual level of
their students has radically declined, in some cases to a "critical
level."
Kikar Hashabbat quoted Rabbi Koldetzki as telling a small
number of people that "the situation in general is much lighter, and
there are less seriously ill [people]."
He added that "unfortunately there are certain young men who do not
live in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem, who have not come to yeshiva. We are
concerned that young men, a very large number of them, have not returned
and have fallen into the streets. This is a life-threatening situation,
when they do not come to the yeshivas."
"What the Zionists have not managed to do in 70 years, in these
trials we have lost young men. We must pray that they are all healthy,"
he mourned, calling for special prayers until the beginning of the
Hebrew month of Elul.
