By COLlive reporter
Members of Beis Din Rabbonei Chabad in Israel issued a letter asking Lubavitchers not to visit the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
“After consulting with doctors – friends who claim that it is a danger not only to the residents of the neighborhood but also to guests, we, therefore, request from each and everyone not to come to the neighborhood for the time being,” they wrote.
The letter from Wednesday was signed by Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Yaroslavsky (Kiryat Malachi), Rabbi Avrohom Michoel Halperin (Jerusalem), Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gluckowsky (Rechovot), Rabbi Yochanan Gurary (Holon), Rabbi Yosef Hecht (Eilat), Rabbi Moshe Havlin (Kiryat Gat) and Rabbi Yisroel Hendel (Migdal Haemek).
They said that their unusual public letter was written to emphasize the request made by Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba and Rabbi Yosef Braun, members of Badatz Crown Heights.
This letter follows a letter signed by 14 local doctors and 5 Hatzalah coordinators requesting visitors do not come to Crown Heights for Gimmel Tammuz.
As reported on COLlive.com, Rabbi Osdoba and Rabbi Braun said their decision was based on consultation with local physicians who are concerned that the vulnerable in the community may still become infected by coronavirus.
Let’s hope people actually listen to the Rabbonim and doctors.
we need to hope??? it is pikuach nefesh – you have heard that from our bais din, from israel’s bais din and from all of the medical professionals who care for our community. now it is up to us to CLOSE our homes to guests who endanger our community and to make sure that they are not welcome here
Yes, it’s up to CH people to take responsibility to help protect the older, vulnerable people of our community by NOT opening up their homes to out-of-town guests. Many in CH tend to feel and act lax about precautions because “everyone had it”. Well, not everyone did, and if there is any chance that the older, more vulnerable people in CH can leave their homes for a bit, and get out of house arrest, it is our duty as CH neighbors to help ensure that for them by not introducing potentially new infections.
Could we come for Channukah