HKB"H Has Provided Us With Everything We Need For A Healthy Life

5 Adar Aleph 5782

One year ago, at the beginning of the vaccination campaign, the following was published by Times of Israel.  One year later, with all that we now know for a certainty, has anyone seen any retractions?

Top rabbis rule on the need to vaccinate

...a compilation of leading rabbinic voices outlining the halachic imperative to take the coronavirus vaccine. The list is far from exhaustive and does not include scores of other leaders who have vaccinated and who agree that taking the vaccine is a halachic obligation. The list below includes statements by the following rabbis:

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, R’ David Lau. Sephardic Chief Rabbi, R’ Yitzhak Yosef. Former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau. Chief Rabbi of England, R’ Ephraim Mirvis. The Orthodox Union and Rabbincal Council of America. R’ Chaim Kanievsky. Rabbi Gershon Edelstein. Rabbi Asher Weiss. Rabbi Hershel Schachter. Rabbi Mordechai Willig. Chief Rabbi of Tzfat. Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu. Rabbi Avraham Rubinstein, mayor of Bnei Brak. Rabbi Meir Mazuz, head of Yeshivat Kisei Rahamim.

In addition to all the rabbis above, the follow rabbis (among many others unlisted) publicly vaccinated: The Chief Rabbi of Turkey, Rabbi Isak Haleva. The Vizhnitzer Rebbe. The Erlauer Rebbe. The Boyaner Rebbe. The Gerer Rebbe. The Belzer Rebbe. Rabbi Shalom Cohen, senior Sephardi Haredi Rabbi. Rabbi David HaCohen, head of the Hebron yeshiva.

Remember this?  Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu went a step further...

The following prayer, to be recited upon receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, has been composed by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of the city of Tzfat (Safed) in northern Israel:

“We thank you, our God, and God of our ancestors, God of all flesh, the Creator of cures, that You have endowed humankind with knowledge and imbued humanity with the understanding to find and to invent an inoculation to this pandemic. May it be Your will that this vaccine will prevent the spread of the pandemic and save the lives of millions throughout the world.”

Has anyone seen a public retraction now that we know the misnamed "vaccine" is neither "safe" nor "effective"?  If so, I'd be happy to know about it and publish it here.

BOMBSHELL: FEBRUARY 1, 2022
(h/t Unknown commenter)

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Over Shabbat, I learned the following from the book Ramchal on the Parsha, Sefer Shemot published by Targum Press:

Serving Hashem properly brings kedusha to things that sustain and give us life - the food a person eats becomes blessed.  The blessing implies not only being satisfied with a small amount, but that the food he eats contains the required nutrients to make him healthy and strong.  The majority of illness results from food which does not properly sustain a person's health - the result of food not being blessed properly.  When food is not blessed, kedusha is unable to attach itself, thereby leaving room for tum'ah to set in, resulting in weakness and illness.

When the food is blessed, kedusha penetrates and serves not only to strengthen the person and prevent illness, but also cures illness which may have already taken hold.  This is the meaning behind:  "He shall bless your bread and water and I will remove the sickness from among you."  The sickness which has already taken hold of the person will be removed when he ingests food which is blessed.

The specific "service of Hashem" which brings blessing upon food is Birkas Hamazon when recited properly.  One who does not recite Birkas Hamazon at all or even when he does recite it, it is without joy and a satisfied heart, will not bring blessing to the food he has eaten.  Improper recitation of Birkas Hamazon prevents the blessing of the "One Who Sustains all" from resting on this food; the food turns bitter bringing all sorts of illness of unknown causes.  This is alluded to in the pasuk "and he will encounter numerous bad sufferings, and he will say on that day: is it not because Hashem is not within me this suffering has found me"  (Devarim 31:17).  In the end he will realize and acknowledge that the suffering he is enduring is the result of his preventing Hashem's bracha from resting on the food he has eaten.  Blessing Hashem below awakens Hashem's blessing from above.

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COVID: Vitamin D deficiency pre-infection may lead to severe corona case

There is a clear connection between a deficiency of vitamin D and COVID-19 mortality and severity, according to researchers from the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University.

May all the cholim have a speedy refuah shleimah.