JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Gerer Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Alter, has instructed all members of the Gur Hasidic community, including men, women, and children, to receive the winter flu vaccine due to the significant rise in flu cases across the country.
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The directive was communicated to the community by the “Yad Achat” organization of Gur Hasidim, headed by Rabbi Shimon Rothstein, the Rebbe’s son-in-law. Rabbi Rothstein stressed that he had consulted with his father-in-law, the Rebbe of Gur, who supported the decision and instructed all Hasidim to get vaccinated, including those who are generally not prone to contracting the flu.
In the directive sent to the community, it was also emphasized that individuals with underlying health conditions or medical concerns should consult with a doctor before receiving the vaccine.
Currently, hospitals in Israel are facing a severe wave of severe flu cases, with internal medicine departments reaching over 100% occupancy.
In recent weeks, a five-year-old girl with underlying health issues passed away at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba after experiencing system failure following a flu infection. Additionally, two teenage girls, one aged 13 from Elad and another aged 18 from Jerusalem, passed away from the flu in recent weeks.
Here we go again. Commenters who have not seen a science book since the 20-year old edition they used in 3rd grade in Cheder all seem to have Ph.D.’s in Immunology.
I think he suggested the Covid too….
This year’s shots (AZ, GSK, Mylan etc.) are still legacy & non mRNA GT. I personally never take them (BH still young enough with a robust immune system), but would advise elderly to take them eventhough in reality it’s a sfek-sfeika: 33% vials match the current circulatory strain, 20% risk of infection during winter season. That small % could make all the difference to someone who’s more vulnerable to this potentially fatal disease. Like everything in medicine, it’s all about risk vs reward. No such thing as ANY medical invervention – even something as common as Tylenol – without risks.
The fda has a policy… to never count any side effects of the vaccines. People report them only a fraction of the time and even then the FDA pretends it doesn’t exist. Thousands of deaths and reports of severe injury are entered into the VAERS database and nothing is done with the info. In fact, a Harvard study estimated that only one percent of vaccine injuries even makes it into the VAERS. And once it’s there, the FDA seems to just pretend it’s not or even delete entries.
So if a person relies on this “safety net” of vaccine injury surveillance, he will assume vaccines are “safe”
Because if I can’t see the snake that bit me, obviously I was not bitten by a snake and I’m just imagining the side effects…
It’s easy to count how many people die from measles or polio. It’s a lot harder to count vaccine injuries in a system that refuses to acknowledge they even exist.
Because the Torah venerates doctors
Many of our Torah scholars do as well
Sadly doctors are a pawn in a corrupt system
They are told only the supposed benefits of vaccines and never any possible downsides and certainly not how ineffective flu vaccines generally are.
They are literally Russian roulette
They “may” help u avoid the flu (25% efficacy) but then they make you more susceptible to getting sick with something else after vaccination weakens your immunity. And they make also cause a host of unwelcome side effects.
It’s a little late in the season to get the shot.
Does this mean that without his direction people wouldn’t just ask their doc if it’s recommended? Do people really not have enough saichel to realize that there are benefits to getting a vaccine without the need to be told this by a rebbe? Have people forgotten how to think?
Did he become a doctor?
And why have the flu cases ballooned astronomically since the flu shots began?
I understand why the Gerrer Rebbeh offered hs opinion. He is to some degree responsible for the wellbeing of tens of thousands of followers. Ditto for the doctors in our community. People look to them for guidance. Ditto for a few gedolai torah who may feel an achrayus to the tzibbur. Ditto actual reputable scientists of which there is no shortage in our kehillos.
Why would the rest of us offer our opinions on the safety and advisability of vaccine usage?
After 120 years the borai olam might have asked yet ask a few yechidim to account for keeping their opinions to themselves.
Can anyone here say they are speaking out because they know the borai olam wants the velt to listen to their medical advice? Would the borai olam come to us with a tainah if we left this topic to bigger people than us?
He stumbled into a smart piece of advice!
This is pseudoscience. There never was a virus isolated. There is no scientific evidence of viruses. It was invented to explain the germ that was making people sick when bacteria couldn’t be blamed. Look up the virologist Stefan Lanka, and Dr Sam Bailey.
The Rebbe means well as do other Rabbonim who push vaccines, but unless one is a scientist familiar with the actual history of virology and its supposed proofs, they are ignorant of the emes. Please research before putting poisons directly into your bodies!
is he a doctor
We live in a tight knit community, there are many sick, immuno compromised people who cant take the vaacine- they end up getting the flu cause the people around them didnt. Kol yisroel aryvim ze luze-we are all responsible for the other ones health…..
You see there’s one problem when you put a very big rabbi on the same level as your friends or people who just get fooled by things they read online, that’s a very big disrespect to the rabbi who would never in a million years make a decision without delving deep into the Torah which contains knowledge of everything. If you really think the rabbi wasn’t thinking straight or made a mistake in his decision, it means that you have zero value for a Gadol. ZERO. If you really think he could just be fooled by a doctor or paid off by a pharmaceutical company, it’s such a big insult that you should leave this religion
But RFK jr and Muskala said NO vax. (He has stock in iron lungs and polio crutches…)