Yom Kippur, Medical Exemptions, and Forgiveness
Yom Kippur is upon us, and those of us who have been hurt by those who refuse to listen to us or understand us are having a very hard time forgiving.
All we have done is choose a different way for our families.
We wish ill upon no one.
We don't care if you vaccinate or don't vaccinate.
We know we are not dangerous.
We know we are not carrying illness.
We know we are not comparable to a "loaded gun" as some rabbis have suggested
We know we are misunderstood by people who have come to view the vaccine industry as infallible, while not recognizing that this is a dogma which has overtaken minds
Yet
We have been maligned
We have been shunned
We have been ostracized
We have been thrown out of schools
We have been thrown out of shuls
We have been thrown out of summer camps
We have been yelled at
We have been screamed at
We have been called names
We have had our human dignity questioned
We have had accusations hurled at us that we are murderers, baby killers, people unfit to be around others
Having been on the receiving end of much of this, it is hard to argue that those who don't vaccinate are the sinners.
And what is the counterargument?
If you only had a medical exemption you'd be welcomed into the fold.
Were that only possible! Were there only tests which could prove to whom the vaccine(s) is/are dangerous! (There aren't) And make no mistake - vaccines do harm, they have killed children and adults, they are far far far from perfect.
That the "benefit outweighs the risks" is not a strong halachic argument when one examines actual data. But we digress.
The only way to get a medical exemption is if you are already damaged by a vaccine. And you can prove it.
Those of us who are vaccine damaged know it was the vaccine. Nothing else changed in our lives. We do not have the resources to prove it. But we know.
Those of us who do not want to take the risk, because we know too much, we've seen to much, we know of vaccine injuries, some permanent to living persons, some having killed people we know... we believe this should not be the determining factor of who is welcome in the Jewish community.
You reap what you sow, right? To those who have thrown us out, we hope you'll come around to see that your decisions were wrong. Your judgment and treatment of us, instead of attempting to understand us, is something you'll have to answer for this Yom Kippur and in the coming years.
Maybe we can forgive you if you seek us out and welcome us back. In the meantime, you've turned many of us away from God and Torah through denying us a place at the table.
Your track record shows you won't seek us out, because you believe we are wrong, and you think you've done God's work in protecting everyone else from us. But in terms of who has hurt who, you are in the wrong. We did nothing to you. We were just living our lives in a free manner. You chose to kick us out of every area of Jewish life.
Which leaves us at the current status. You won't ask forgiveness, so we can't truly grant it.
Shana tova
All we have done is choose a different way for our families.
We wish ill upon no one.
We don't care if you vaccinate or don't vaccinate.
We know we are not dangerous.
We know we are not carrying illness.
We know we are not comparable to a "loaded gun" as some rabbis have suggested
We know we are misunderstood by people who have come to view the vaccine industry as infallible, while not recognizing that this is a dogma which has overtaken minds
Yet
We have been maligned
We have been shunned
We have been ostracized
We have been thrown out of schools
We have been thrown out of shuls
We have been thrown out of summer camps
We have been yelled at
We have been screamed at
We have been called names
We have had our human dignity questioned
We have had accusations hurled at us that we are murderers, baby killers, people unfit to be around others
Having been on the receiving end of much of this, it is hard to argue that those who don't vaccinate are the sinners.
And what is the counterargument?
If you only had a medical exemption you'd be welcomed into the fold.
Were that only possible! Were there only tests which could prove to whom the vaccine(s) is/are dangerous! (There aren't) And make no mistake - vaccines do harm, they have killed children and adults, they are far far far from perfect.
That the "benefit outweighs the risks" is not a strong halachic argument when one examines actual data. But we digress.
The only way to get a medical exemption is if you are already damaged by a vaccine. And you can prove it.
Those of us who are vaccine damaged know it was the vaccine. Nothing else changed in our lives. We do not have the resources to prove it. But we know.
Those of us who do not want to take the risk, because we know too much, we've seen to much, we know of vaccine injuries, some permanent to living persons, some having killed people we know... we believe this should not be the determining factor of who is welcome in the Jewish community.
You reap what you sow, right? To those who have thrown us out, we hope you'll come around to see that your decisions were wrong. Your judgment and treatment of us, instead of attempting to understand us, is something you'll have to answer for this Yom Kippur and in the coming years.
Maybe we can forgive you if you seek us out and welcome us back. In the meantime, you've turned many of us away from God and Torah through denying us a place at the table.
Your track record shows you won't seek us out, because you believe we are wrong, and you think you've done God's work in protecting everyone else from us. But in terms of who has hurt who, you are in the wrong. We did nothing to you. We were just living our lives in a free manner. You chose to kick us out of every area of Jewish life.
Which leaves us at the current status. You won't ask forgiveness, so we can't truly grant it.
Shana tova
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