The Coronavirus: We Don't Want Blood On Our Hands!

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

the yeshiva dotnet ace Sarah Healy archive Omaima Negev a Shia this is a distressful time for the Jewish people and for all peoples for the entire planet for the world it's not a time for panic fear and hysteria but it is a time for deep conscientiousness caring awareness inner unity and responsibility I am deeply perturbed and frankly it's shocking that many people in our communities are completely unaware perhaps with good intentions but unaware of the seriousness of the situation they almost mock at the word quarantine as though it was an invention of some health official who decided it's a good thing and he must not obliged by it but my dearest friends you know who invented the idea of quarantine you know who invented the halacha of quarantine you know who invented the obligation to go into quarantine you know who the Jewish people 2000 almost 2000 years ago in the Gemara Miss Esther Bubba comma and then recorded in the halacha thority central sonorous your idea Simon Kufa Zion this is a Jewish invention that the Gentiles took from the Jewish people hundreds and hundreds of years ago thousands of years ago before we know about microbes and microorganisms and viruses and DNA and RNA and host cells our sages living hundreds and hundreds of years ago instructed Jewish people to quarantine in a time of a pandemic in a time of an infectious disease that is traveling from person to quote one of the greatest her logic authorities in history there are more Rubino moisture Easterners the rabbi of Krakow in Poland 16th century

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1. 0:00the yeshiva dotnet ace Sarah Healy archive Omaima Negev a Shia this is a distressful time…
2. 1:30know who invented the obligation to go into quarantine you know who the Jewish people 2000…
3. 3:34commentators their initials Alaric and Rebecca Vega and many other commentators you think these people did…
4. 5:06three four people have the virus that's not a big deal right the next day eight…
5. 7:09the spanish flu it killed between 30 50 million people some say 100 million people a…
6. 8:42of hundreds of thousands of millions of people if we quarantine the virus travels but much…
7. 10:44students and constituents and and brothers and sisters the world over this is a very very…
8. 12:16more than one class every single morning in shul with a lot of people attending its…
9. 14:20because it's not spelled Aleph non Aleph if it would have spelled Aleph non Aleph is…
10. 15:55be I'm going to embrace it with dignity kyani of death use this opportunity it's a…

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