The Rebbe and the Covid Vaccine

 

Question:

Did the Rebbe endorse vaccines? And if so, shouldn't all Chabad adherents support the covid vaccine?

Answer:

No, the Rebbe did not endorse all vaccines, but only certain vaccines under certain conditions that no longer exist, especially not with regard to the novel covid shot. Consequently, true Chabad adherents should all oppose this so-called vaccine.

Explanation:

The Rebbe approved of a vaccine ONLY when it was:

1) voluntary;

2) known to be incontrovertibly safe;

3) produced by a reputable company that bore full liability for its product;

4) purporting to protect a child from an illness that posed actual and quantifiable risk to this child, NOT for so-called "herd immunity" (a secular and foreign concept that the Rebbe never acknowledged or even hinted at, and which has no basis in Judaic Law);

5) based on the information that was known (from presumably independent sources) at that time;

6) wasn’t being used a divisive tool to justify:

a) banning children from Talmud Torah;

b) alienating healthy individuals and families from their communities;

c) barring healthy women from using the mikva;

d) expelling healthy individuals from shul;

e) imposing shocking apartheid policies à la Kamtsa Bar Kamtsa;

f) sowing discord and dividing families;

g) causing unprecedented dissention and jeopardizing marriages;

h) dividing communities into a caste system of “vaccinated” vs “unvaccinated” (agudos agudos) [1]

7) it wasn’t part of a policy that declared religion “non-essential” and unjustly shut down shuls, yeshivos, Talmud Torahs, banned bikur cholim, hachnosas orchim, public sedarim, chasunos, levayos, and many other essential and non-negotiable Judaic observances;

8) it wasn’t part of a policy that held entire communities hostage, condemned elders to languish in solitude, isolated individuals from their families and loved ones, forced children into isolation and forced them to sit in front of computer screens all day for many months, unjustly prevented human beings worldwide from leading healthy productive lives with other human beings, “לשבת יצרה -- He did not create it a waste, But formed it for habitation" [2]

9) it wasn’t being pushed with unprecedented censorship of dissenting expert views;

10) its “emergency use authorization” wasn’t based on skewed data, fraudulent testing, and suppression of effective therapies whose safety is well-established for many decades.

 

Do you now understand why the Rebbe would not approve of the so-called covid vaccine? Does it even need to be spelled out?

Okay, for the sake of clarity, here goes:

This vaccine is:

1) compulsory, a grave violation of body sovereignty;

2) unsafe, with dozens of thousands of deaths reported worldwide (and millions of reported injuries);

3) produced by convicted felons who have been sheltered from all liability for their vaccine products;

4) does not protect the recipient from an illness that poses any actual or credible risk to him, but instead is claimed to be necessary for so-called "herd immunity" (a secular and foreign concept that the Rebbe never acknowledged or even hinted at, and which has no basis in Judaic Law);

5) is based on state-sponsored and pharma-funded claims that are not corroborated by independent sources;

6) is being used as a divisive tool to justify:

a) banning children from Talmud Torah;

b) alienating healthy individuals and families from their communities;

c) barring healthy women from using the mikva;

d) expelling healthy individuals from shul;

e) imposing shocking apartheid policies à la Kamtsa Bar Kamtsa;

f) sowing discord and dividing families;

g) causing unprecedented dissention and jeopardizing marriages;

h) dividing communities into a caste system of ‘vaccinated” vs “unvaccinated” (agudos agudos) 

7) is part of a policy that declared the Jewish religion “non-essential” and unjustly shut down shuls, yeshivos, Talmud Torahs, banned bikur cholim, chasunos, levayos, and many other essential and non-negotiable Judaic observances;

8) is part of a policy that held entire communities hostage, condemned elders to languish in solitude, isolated individuals from their families and loved ones, forced children into isolation and forced them to sit in front of computer screens all day for many months, unjustly prevented human beings worldwide from leading healthy productive lives with other human beings, “לשבת יצרה”, and threatens to do so again at any time in the future, at the government’s slightest whim;

9) is being pushed with unprecedented censorship of dissenting expert views;

10) only has “emergency use authorization” that’s based on skewed data, fraudulent testing, and suppression of effective therapies whose safety is well-established for many years;

and most essentially:

11) isn’t really a vaccine at all but a novel genetic technology that has never before been used on the population.

It is abundantly evident that the Rebbe would deem this “vaccine” categorically forbidden and would highly discourage its use for anyone, especially not for children and young adults.

We cannot allow the Rebbe’s opinion of the Salk Vaccine of the 50s to be misconstrued as a carte-blanch approval of all nominal vaccines of all times, especially not the dubious product under discussion that's a "vaccine in name only." The mere suggestion is utter falsehood and a perverse distortion of everything holy. [3]

Instead, heed the Rebbe’s timeless words to gather ALL yidden for Torah study and prayer, and see to it that EVERY single child attend Talmud Torah together with his peers, and to increase in INDISCRIMINATE acts of goodness and kindness to EVERY single human being to hasten the true and complete redemption, and to start living in a redeemed mindset of Geulah, a time when all subjugation to secular governments will CEASE for all times. [4]

Taking the covid shot is the very epitome of golus (exile), subjugation to nations, [5] שעבוד מלכיות.

Say YES to redemption and NO to covid shots.

Let’s heed the Rebbe’s actual wishes by protecting our children and all tinokos shel beis rabban, by insisting on the inviolable and non-negotiable unity of our people (“shleimus ha’am”), and by shielding oneself and others from this dubious shot at all costs. By doing so, we’ll be demonstrating true Redemption, freedom from tyranny and freedom to serve Hashem, complete in body and soul, gezunterheit un freilicherheit, in the true and complete Redemption. May it be right NOW.

Notes:

[1] Yevamos 14a, based on Deut. 14:1

[2] Isaiah 45:18

[3] The Rebbe once famously remarked in 1991, after several individuals had deliberately misinterpreted his words: "די וואס שפילן זיך מיט מיינע ווערטער הויבן זיך אן מיט מיר אליין -- Those who misconstrue my words are starting up with me personally."

[4] See sicha of Shabbos Parshas Balak 5751 and elsewhere.

[5] Rambam, Mishne Torah, Laws of Kings and King Moshiach, chapter 12:2.