BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — On Thursday, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky instructed parents to vaccinate children, aged five and above, against COVID-19.
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Rav Chaim came to that conclusion after meeting with top health officials at his home, amid a growing concern in Israel about a potential new wave.
The meeting was attended by Professor Ran Balicer, Chair of Israel’s National Experts Panel on COVID-19; Coronavirus Czar Professor Salman Zarka; and the Rav’s personal physician, Dr. Meshulam Hart.
The experts presented the latest data, including a recent increase in cases, as well the approval by the U.S. FDA to administer the Pfizer vaccine to kids aged five and over.
Rav Kanievsky examined the data with a specific focus on safety. He questioned whether the benefits and effectiveness of vaccinating children outweigh the risks associated with the vaccine, before arriving at the conclusion that children should be vaccinated.
In a video of the meeting, the Rav was asked by his grandson if people “are able to” give the vaccine to children, or if “they must”. He replied “They must.”
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In addition, he gave a bracha for children who receive the vaccine to be blessed with good health, and for healthcare workers to have hatzlacha in their work.
This is the latest in a series of rulings intended to fight the spread of the pandemic. In the past, the Rav has instructed Yeshivos to close down in order to fight the spread, and he has told those with high risk to receive a booster.
The guidance comes amid growing concern in Israel over a potential fifth wave. During an interview with Kan News this week, Zarka warned that while some Israelis believe the pandemic is over, that may not be the case.
“The pandemic is still here,” he said, adding that the eligible citizens who have not yet received boosters “are not anti-vaxxers… maybe they falsely believe” that the danger is over.
On Wednesday, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz told Channel 12 News that he may recommend a fourth vaccine dose, if cases continue to climb.
Many are suspicious that this is not true
His family is known to be using his name and promoting their ideologies
His daughter said in a recorded conversation that he doesn’t recognize her and he barely can speak
I highly doubt he examined anything or gave any psak
Let them video the entire meeting and then I’ll believe it
Let’s see what data they presented as well
If they presented incomplete or erroneous data and lies about efficacy and safety the psak would be invalid
A psak halacha is contingent upon how the facts of the case were presented to the posek. In other words, if you happen to lie to a Rav regarding what happened, the resulting psak predicated upon the misrepresented facts doesn’t magically become a Daas Torah. Very few people have access to Rav Chaim, and the Rav is hard of hearing so that he needs a kind of interpreter to sit next to him and tell what a person visiting for a few minutes across the table just said. So whoever that interpreter person is, he’s the one who is really paskening; not Rav Chaim.
How many boosters does it take to be left alone
Just wondering….. if Rav Kanievsky is not a victim of “misinformation”.
It’s sheker !! Do not listen to this masquerade. His own daughter said he doesn’t even recognize her. It’s all a play organized by the reshayims who are around him !!
Please stop promoting this propaganda. Anyone who know what really goes on there, will tell you this is a media show. R’ Chaim’s daughter (I heard this myself) told someone recently that the Rav doesn’t even recognize her. Many people who went in individually to ask, ,were told clearly NO. There is a family member pulling the strings there and controlling who can or cannot come there to speak about this.
$$$$$$. Terrible misuse of his power and bizayon of a tzaddik.
Hashem yishmor.
Anyone with common sense knows that there is almost non existent risk to a child becoming ill with covid. Contrast that to the dangers of using children as guinea pigs which the government gets millions for.
So silly. Of course he never said to poison the kids with these injections, especially not for a virus that they don’t even know that they have, if they do manage to catch it.
This chilul Hashem of people lying to him and making up things he said, has become quite the phenomenon recently, most prominently of which was the fake WZO vote heter that precipitated Covid.
Based on what I heard directly from someone who has had first hand contact with R’ Chaim for the last 20+ years, I would take this purported proclamation by R’ Chaim (and any in the last 3 years or so) with lots of grains of salt (or salt substitute, if you’re on a salt free diet).
Fake News! Pksak Halacha, or buzz off. Nobody is falling for this propaganda. More kids died r”l from the clot shot than the virus.
Fake news.
So basically a few self-important doctors sat with Yanky Kanievsky and told him what they need his grandfather to say.
Watch the video-R Chaim couldn’t look less engaged.
This is forgetting the fact that any knowledge he may have of this matter is all from them with very clear monetary agendas…
Shameful.
I heard the gedolim here in EY actually don’t recommend the vaccine for kids
Reb Chaim was most probably deep in his sefer without realizing anyone was around him. Everyone should ask their Rav what Rav Chaim really thinks about the vaccines
My comment is not about the vaccine for kids , I have no opinion .
But what sticks out is how many refute the story , give reasons why , and refuse to accept the psak.
On other issues , they throw down the Das Torah & gedolim cards to stop others from questioning the latter rulings or circumstances that apply to them.
Just an observation.
There is another
There is another practical side to this.
The psak is for ey. The culture is different in Israel vs the USA. We value civil liberties and individual rights much more. In ey if kids test postive even though nothing will happen to them, the govt may close yeshivas any how. While we are scared of that in the USA , I think those days are over. The Democrats are weaker and not really in that position.
Ps this is assuming the psak is real and based on facts. ( it could be)
Thanksgiving to the Rov for recognizing the vital importance of the covid vaccine- and the booster! 800,000 dead in USA, millions sickened, many still w long-term symptoms. Vax, or get it and spread it.
Here comes Sara with her nonsense and hysteria and conspiracies. I’m popping up the popcorn so I can sit back and enjoy the insanity of that nut job’s ramblings and the inevitable mockery and refutations in the responses to her insanity.