Jewish Vaccine Stories

 One of the biggest fallouts of the last 15 months is in how science, debate, and the response to COVID was orchestrated (awfully) by governments, Big Pharma, and Big Tech. For fun, some names will be altered, to try to avoid censorship here. The censorship by such bad actors as Flacebrook, Yu Twob, Tritttter, and other social media platforms has demonstrated that there is no interest in dialogue, discussion, debate - only in dogma which comes from ONE PERSPECTIVE. We here at jewishvaccinestories certainly want no part of the vaccinism religion. Once upon a time if you didn't like a doctor's opinion, you went for a second one (or a third, etc) until you got a different opinion that you liked.  Now, only one opinion is allowed, and everyone else is silenced, disavowed, destroyed, fired. In the United States of America. It's a combination of cancel culture, wokeness, hating people who question safety of pharmaceuticals/biologics, especially when we're dealing with a new m...

We've been saying this a very long time. We need to live together and stop tearing apart from one another over health and medical choices. People are not wired the same. But we all live in the same world.  It's time we recognized that.  Good job, Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation!

  What if there is a vaccine preventable illness which has a known, very successful treatment? Are you allowed to risk getting the illness, knowing there is a treatment that will help you? What if there is a vaccine that may give you an illness for which there is no cure? Are you allowed to take the vaccine, risk getting the illness, which may ultimately end your life? In either case, what logical or halakhic argument allows someone else to make you take the vaccine? It would seem that שב ואל תעשה should rule the day. Do your best to not get sick. But if you get sick, seek a treatment that works. Putting yourself at risk with an experimental product that is not guaranteed to do much of anything has really no basis or precedent in Torah law and Torah living. You can put all your faith in a vaccine. But then your religion is VACCINISM - not Judaism.  You don't really believe in God. You believe in a pharmacological biologic. Look in the mirror. It's hard to accept this real...

 The late Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has an essay entitled "Forgiveness" in his book "Covenant and Conversation." We at JewishVaccineStories know nothing of Rabbi Sacks' opinion on vaccination. But based on his comments here, one would think that he would not be in favor of the Sinas Chinum which the disagreement over vaccination engenders.  Referencing the passage in which Yosef (Joseph) denies any intent to seek vengeance against his brothers after their father's passing, Rabbi Sacks writes: ... the real significance of this passage goes far beyond the story of Joseph and his brothers. It is the essential prelude to the book of Exodus and the birth of Israel as a nation. The book of Genesis is, among other things, a set of variations on the theme of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers. The book begins with fratricide and ends with reconciliation. There is a clear pattern to the final scene of each of th...

There is a rabbi in New York who is largely responsible for influencing rabbis around the world to hate Jews who do not vaccinate. He blames "frum yidden" for all the "preventable diseases" in the world. Nothing is more anti-Semitic than such a canard, but why get into semantics? He is responsible for these two gems. Lie: Someone who does not vaccinate is a loaded gun Why it's a lie: As every pro-2nd amendment person will tell you: a loaded gun is not the danger. The problem is who is behind the loaded gun. But, they say, "A loaded gun can accidentally fire at any time." Perhaps this is true. We at jewishvaccinestories are not familiar with people knowing what they're doing and being responsible having these kinds of accidents. But nevertheless, that is not the point. The reason it is a lie is because a loaded gun can be seen. People are aware of its potential power. Were it to be pulled out, the danger can be seen, isolated and taken out o...

Congratulations to all the legislators of countries and instituters of rules in Yeshivas. For demonizing, labeling, mocking, and treating those who don't vaccinate like parasites, God has come along (unless this virus is lab-induced, which, if that is so, would just go to show that Mankind can sometimes do really stupid things in laboratories) to say, "You are a bunch of fools. You think you can mistreat my children who do not trust the safety of your unsafe products? I will give you something none of you know how to handle. So you can't blame 'anti-vaxxers,' as this one is on all of you." With heartfelt feelings of sorrow for those who have died and for family members who suffer, we here at jewishvaccinestories wish good health upon everyone, even those who hate us. May God have mercy on our world. And may those who want to blame humans for not buying into a captured industry (television, media, government, your doctor are all owned by Pharma) come to...

I saw this awful headline, and only because I've been conditioned to think this way, my instinct said, "But was he vaccinated?" https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5608388,00.html Teen dies of injuries from lightning strike near Ashkelon Of course the answer is irrelevant. This is a tragedy, and it is very sad for the family and for a small nation which does its best to protect its citizens. In the end, the God-fearing person knows that people can lose their lives in all kinds of ways, least of which is the measles. This is not a judgment of anyone, nor of pretending to understand the ways of God. But it is questioning the clarity of those who KNOW that vaccines SAVE LIVES and who also KNOW that those who don't vaccinate are DANGEROUS to the VACCINATED. Having met many unvaccinated children, it is hard to tell which is most dangerous. (Answer: None of them. Some of them have better immunity than any vaccine could ever provide. Some are simply not si...

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 kill...

Shulchan Aruch 576 https://www.sefaria.org/Shulchan_Arukh%2C_Orach_Chayim.576.5?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en וכן מתענים על החולאים כיצד הרי שירד חולי א' לאנשים הרבה באותה העיר כגון אסכרה (פי' חולי סוגר הגרון מענין ויסכרו מעינות תהום) או חרחור וכיוצא בהם והיו מתים מאותו חולי הרי זה צרת צבור וגוזרין עליה תעני' ומתריעין וכן חכוך לח הרי הוא כשחין פורח ואם פשט ברוב הצבור מתענין ומתריעין עליו אבל חכוך יבש צועקים עליו בלבד: הגה ובאלו חולאים אינן צריכין שימותו בשלשה ימים זה אחר זה כמו בדבר שהוא בא מכח שינוי אויר אלא מתענים ומתריעים על אלו החלאים מיד. (ב"י) : When there is an illness, we FAST. An example is given by the Magen Avraham. Is he describing smallpox? Measles? Most significantly he says if these marks are coming on children AND THEY ARE DYING then we need to FAST. And anyone who does not take his child out of the city is "חייב בנפשותם." מגן אברהם ג ג (פמ"ג) על החולאים. וה"ה כשאבעבועות פורחי' בתינוקות ומתים יש לגזור תעני'...

Imagine you're an Israeli couple. Going on Shlichut. You haven't vaccinated your kids - and have all your paperwork in order in Israel. But you come to America. Not realizing that America isn't being ruled by thoughtful people who understand subtlety and nuance. By people who are tolerant of other life choices. But you are coming to CRAZY TOWN USA Where people believe that being unvaccinated EQUALS carrying the measles all the time. (That is the most nonsensical equation. Go Pharma and hell-bound doctors .) The school which hired you finds out. And even though you live in a state which allows for religious exemptions, the school is "frummer" than the state! So the school kicks out your kids. And fires you. Even though you gave up your home, sold your stuff, made a life investment in doing good for the Jewish people. This happened. This week. (September 2019) True story. Is this not evil? THIS IS PURE EVIL!

It's a quote from the Talmud. Dr. Jeremy Brown wrote an article about it, which can be found here: https://jewishvaccinestories.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-doctor-owns-up-to-truth.html Here is another reason why doctors are going to hell. Doctors have gotten into the heads of the rabbis and educators and have convinced them: that healthy children, whose parents have opted out of the vaccine program, are dangerous. that not having Hep-B vaccine should be a barrier to getting a Jewish education (Hepatitis B is a disease communicable through shared needles or through sexual intercourse - it's hard to argue that babies and children need this one) that vaccination - despite all the risks and all the stories people tell - is the litmus test for who belongs in the Jewish community, and certainly in school that we should all fear people, especially children, who are unvaccinated (despite there being no evidence for this being a genuine fear - this is a marketing ploy by pharmace...

Yes. We know he thinks all those who don't vaccinate are evil . Yet he also recognizes that there really isn't a reasonable way to get around the Talmud, which says doctors are going to hell. So. Enjoy? http://www.talmudology.com/jeremybrownmdgmailcom/2016/5/22/kiddushin-82a-the-best-doctors-go-to-hell May 31, 2016 Kiddushin 82a ~ The Best Doctors Go to Hell Kiddushin 82  קידושין פב, א רבי יהודה אומר משמו החמרין רובן רשעים והגמלין רובן כשרין הספנין רובן חסידים טוב שברופאים לגיהנם והכשר שבטבחים שותפו של עמלק  Rabbi Yehuda said in the name of Abba Gurya: Most donkey drivers are evil; most camel drivers are righteous; most sailors are pious; the best of doctors is destined for hell; and even the best butcher is a partner with Amalek.  "The best of doctors is destined for hell". That's quite a statement for Rabbi Yehudah to make. Writing in The Atlantic several years ago, the late Sherwin Nuland told this (probably apocryphal) story:  Imprisoned in ...

Being immune-deficient is not a blessing. One needs to be so careful, all the time. One never knows which person will cough in the wrong direction, which person one contacts might be carrying some pathogen or illness. Considering the following data, and the list which follows, the unvaccinated are the least the immuno compromised's concerns. Because - NEWSFLASH - the unvaccinated are not carrying these illnesses. Unlike the vaccinated, who for a time might be silent carriers, or might carry an infection while being asymptomatic, when the unvaccinated do get sick (which is very infrequent), they have symptoms and know to stay home or to quarantine themselves. So what are the biggest killers in the world? https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/the-5-most-deadly-contagious-diseases.html HIV/AIDS:  1.6 million deaths in 2012 Tuberculosis:  1.3 million deaths in 2012 Pneumonia:  1.1 million children under the age of five, according to yearly estimates Inf...

We have a MITZVAH to study Torah. We have a MITZVAH to teach our children Torah. We have a very old TRADITION to establish SCHOOLS for children where they may learn Torah. (credit: Rabbi Yehoshua ben Gamla) All BARRIERS to Torah study were CRITICIZED in the Talmud. Think about the story of Hillel climbing on the roof, and Rabban Gamliel, who kept hundreds of students out of the Beit Midrash. Going through time, when Jews lived in FOREIGN lands, Jews were sometimes called DISEASED, and sometimes blamed for NOT getting DISEASE. These accusations were always hurled at them by NON-JEWS. The accusations were based in anti-Semitism, proving that HATRED of JEWS does not follow any LOGIC. And these were always before such thing as vaccines existed.* Now. VACCINE SCIENCE IS SETTLED. There is no more PERFECT invention than VACCINES. VACCINES were CREATED by the GODS (of the pharmaceutical companies). They are SAFE and EFFECTIVE. Certainly MORE than they were in Jenner's day, and...

1. Pharmaceutical Company is God 2. A Jew who does not vaccinate is a murderer (Rodef) 3. A Jew who does not vaccinate has no value as a human being 4. A Jew who does not vaccinate has may not have a relationship with God 5. A Jew who does not vaccinate may not study Torah 6. Vaccination is the defining character of who is welcome in the Jewish community 7. If you question vaccine safety and the propaganda line of "safe and effective" - even in the face of insurmountable evidence to the contrary - you are a heretic 8. Leaving yourself or your children open to 'preventable disease' in the interest of the safety and long-term well being of your child makes you a fool 9. Everyone who does not vaccinate for the sake of the 'greater good' must answer to God Himself 10. If your child is injured through being vaccinated, you are immediately labeled "anti-vaxxer" and you are shunned from the community 11. Vaccines saved humanity, and you have no th...

We veer from our normal discussion just to raise a small point about data, how it is analyzed, and what that means to statistics. The following piece relates to Global Warming. The same general arguments can be made about vaccine science. Yes - incidence of some diseases are down. But at what cost to our children? https://www. commentarymagazine.com/ politics-ideas/climate-global- warming-data-locations/ Global Warming or Bad Data? Garbage in... SEPTEMBER 3, 2019   BY   JOHN STEELE GORDON Al Gore likes to say that the science of climate change is “settled.” But of course, science, almost by definition, is never settled. And climate science has always suffered from the problem of shaky and missing data. Seventy percent of the globe is covered by ocean, where data is hard to collect. Reliable weather records only go back to about 1850 and, in many parts of the world, are far more recent. Modern recording weather stations date only to the early 20th ce...

The Alter Rebbe has a fascinating comment about doctors when it comes to their expertise in treating someone who might need to eat on Yom Kippur. שולחן ערוך הרב אורח חיים סימן תריח:ח-ט סעיף ח  - אבל אם הרופא אומר שאינו צריך והחולה אינו יודע אין מאכילין אותו לפי שאינו יודע של חולה לאו כלום הוא שרובן של חולים אינן יודעין ובקיאין בחלי שלהן אבל אם החולה הוא בעצמו ג"כ רופא בקי והוא מכיר בחליו ואומר איני יודע אם צריך לאכול ביום הכיפורים מאכילין אותו לפי שאלו היה אומר צריך היו מאכילין אותו לכן גם עכשיו שאומר איני יודע מאכילין אותו מספק  סעיף ט  - ו אם הרופא אומר שאינו מכיר את חליו הרי הוא כשאר כל אדם ואין דבריו מעלין כשאומר צריך או שאומר איני יודע שיאכל על פיו וכן כשאומר אינו צריך אין דבריו מורידין כלל ואם החולה (אומר איני יודע או שהחולה) אומר איני צריך ורופא אחד אומר צריך מאכילין אותו ואין משגיחין בדברי רופא זה שאומר אינו צריך כיון שאינו מכיר את החולי  Essentially he says that when it comes to whether a person should eat, we take into consideration the viewpoin...