Coronovirus is starting to scare me

amother

↑ Honeydew

Fri, Mar 06 2020, 3:52 pm

The rebbetzin also has the Coronavirus the shul will be closed till March 14
Members of the shul are quarantined till March 14 the shul dinner is postponed and barmitzvah

amother

Tangerine

Fri, Mar 06 2020, 4:26 pm

amother [ Orange ] wrote:

I often see this and don't understand. What do you mean "trust" in hashem with regard to the coronavirus?

A. Trust that hashem won't allow the coronavirus to affect us jews. This seems silly as hashem allows bad things to happen all the time. Why would I trust that hashem wouldn't send the virus to us?

B. Trust that if we get sick from the coronavirus, we should believe that it's for our own best interest. We just don't understand how feeling sick or dying is good for us, but it is.

C. Other. Please explain.

It means we do our reasonable hishtadlus: hygiene, staying away from sick people, listening to CDC, quarantine if exposed. Then we go on living our lives and realize, like every "bad" potential thing that can happen, that we only have so much control and if we get sick and die, that was somehow meant to be and even good even though we dont understand it. Bitachon doesnt mean trusting hashem will keep.us healthy, it means trusting that no matter what happens, hashem did it purposely for the good of the world, and we may be too small to understand how or why that is good.

amother

↑ Green

Fri, Mar 06 2020, 4:28 pm

amother [ Orange ] wrote:

I'm sorry if I'm getting off topic a little, but I often see this idea of "trusting" in hashem when we are worried about something.
You say we should trust in hashem that we will all be healthy and that the coronavirus will pass over us in the same way the Makkas Bechoros passed over the jews and only targeted the Mitzriyam in Egypt. Hashem also gave us seichel and common sense. It's pretty obvious that hashem runs the world in a way where we would be silly to think we will be protected while others around us are getting sick. Jews suffer from the same illnesses and tzoros that everyone else around them suffers from. It would be foolish to have emunah that the coronavirus will not affect the jewish population.

Bitachon for yourself. Bitachon that nobody will die. Getting coronavirus is not a death sentence.

amother

Brown

Fri, Mar 06 2020, 4:53 pm

amother [ Honeydew ] wrote:

The rebbetzin also has the Coronavirus the shul will be closed till March 14
Members of the shul are quarantined till March 14 the shul dinner is postponed and barmitzvah

So does the rabbi.

If you have health issues, please ask your rabbi about hearing megilla through zoom or another app that broadcasts it live. And consider whether you should limit shaloch manot this year.

And daven for the vulnerable. My DH is one. And I have a cold right now, and given how many people I know who are quarantined, I’m worried that it’s not actually a cold.