This article is very long and thorough, because it has to be. I hope this will not deter you from reading it in full.
There are countless rabbis, community leaders, and influencers who pushed the Covid dogma. They did not do this because they independently studied the matter with an open mind and their honest, unbiased conclusion was that the Covid protocol was scientifically sound, the most appropriate option, and it was mandated by the Torah. The vast majority of them were serving as paid celebrity spokesmen, just doing their job, just following orders, and parroting their lines from others who were parroting the lines, which were fed to them by those who butter their bread.
They were not teachers; they were mouthpieces. They were like the false prophets of old, who sold their souls to dine at the king’s table, or for much less. There is nothing new under the sun.
Asher Weiss — I will not debase the title any more than it has already been debased by calling him a rabbi — was one of the earliest and most prominent Jewish clergymen to push the Covid shots, and he did so emphatically. Watch this from the end of this viral video of his from December 17, 2020:
Once again I will remind people that, according to Chazal, one who is megaleh panim b’Torah shelo k’halacha, one who distorts the Torah to arrive at conclusions that contradict Jewish law, loses his share in the world to come — even if he has Torah and good deeds under his belt (Avos 3:11).
Based on this and much more, if Asher Weiss offered me his share in the world to come for a nickel, I would turn him down. I’d rather have the nickel.
Before continuing, I will remind everyone that Weiss admitted on camera that he serves as a consultant for the Shabak. You know, the same shadowy state intelligence agency that infiltrates Jewish communities in Israel, conducts false flag operations, and brutally tortured Amiram ben Uliel for 17 days until he confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. That Shabak.
They consult with Asher Weiss. For “psak and guidance”.
Since when does the Shabak care about halacha? What sort of “guidance” might Weiss be giving them? Perhaps how to better infiltrate religious communities? Can you come up with a more plausible answer?
Did Weiss use his connections to protest their use of torture? Don’t be silly.
Throughout the Covid era Weiss repeatedly doubled down on masks, lockdowns, and shots, using extreme rhetoric against those who defied instructions.
I documented much of his activity during this time, and called him out for the numerous ways he misled the public with Torah sources cherry-picked, taken out of context, and misapplied, plus doublespeak and other forms of deception. I will provide numerous links at the end of this article to substantiate these harsh claims. I urge readers to study all the information, share it, discuss it, and draw appropriate conclusions.
One cannot claim that Asher Weiss himself was misled, uninformed, or was being yashar — straight — with the public. Like the Mengeles for whom he works, he leveraged his knowledge, oratory skills, position of authority, and facade of greatness to manipulate his listeners and stifle critical questions.
In 2023 I approached Weiss and asked him if he had anything to say to the many people who were harmed by the shots he demanded they take and emphatically declared were safe. He refused to speak about it — “not right now” — and when I persisted, he made a menacing move at me, and one of his cronies assaulted me.
Watch it on Rumble here
or below below:
The fact that Chemed organizers took it for granted that the establishment got something wrong with Covid speaks volumes about how unreasonable it is to deny and deflect anymore, yet Weiss continues to do just that.
Furthermore, if there were ever a “safe place” for Weiss to address this topic, where he is held in the highest esteem, where everyone believes in vaccines and The Science™, this was it. For Weiss to weasel out of addressing the matter even there, with such a desperately poor excuse that gaslights his most loyal followers, should make it clear that he has no intention of addressing critical questions about his Covid rulings from anyone, anywhere, ever.
2:07 — Weiss changes the subject and laments the fact that many people developed a mistrust of the medical establishment and “conventional” remedies and approaches, opting for alternative ideas and cures. He will repeat this throughout his speech, yet at no time does he explore why that happened.
It would behoove people of integrity to perform introspection and try to determine why so many people who had always trusted them, and who wanted to trust them, no longer do.
The most logical explanation for why this happened is not that they all went insane and decided a few fringe lunatics who were being censored made more sense than everything and everyone they ever believed in and wanted to believe in.
No, the most logical explanation for why people stopped trusting the medical establishment is because they found the medical establishment untrustworthy.
It would further behoove people of integrity to reach out to these people with sincerity and humility, to be open and honest about where the establishment went wrong, to hold corrupt people accountable, and to earn back people’s trust not by promoting their authority and “expertise”, but by actually being trustworthy.
Of course, Asher Weiss proceeds to do none of these things. He does the opposite.
For the next 16 minutes he bloviates about the Torah granting doctors the right to heal, which gives sick people the obligation to go to doctors, which grants doctors authority. What Weiss is really doing here is engaging in a sleight of hand. This little drasha, aside from being a distraction, is a ploy to reinforce his rabbinic credibility and authority by citing a bunch of sources and engaging in some pilpul.
He did the same thing in his initial Covid presentation that made such an impact. Instead of talking about the actual matter at hand, he bloviated for over 45 minutes about smallpox and polio, before emphatically urging everyone to take the Covid shots. His speech can be summarized like this:
Smallpox very bad, smallpox vaccine very good, polio very bad, polio vaccine very good. Therefore, Covid vaccine also very good.
Interestingly, Weiss did not treat smallpox and polio as mere “historical events”, a non-halachic discussion, but as a basis for his “halachic” rulings about Covid.
Leaving aside the claims about earlier vaccines saving the world, which are highly disputable, the logical fallacy of pushing the Covid shots based on presumptions about other vaccines is as wide as the Grand Canyon. Nevertheless, Weiss banked on listeners being so wowed by his drasha on something far from the heart of the matter that they would accept his Covid ruling without question. And they did.
But the sleight of hand doesn’t end there. What he cites about doctors is cherry-picked and one-sided. He paints a distorted picture that grossly exaggerates the level of trust given to “establishment” doctors and the degree of authority they have.
He does not discuss the possibility of the establishment being corrupted at the top, with doctors on the ground being forced to just follow orders or lose their license, even if they know better or have serious doubts.
He does not discuss the reality of drug corporations wielding massive influence over medical education and practice.
He does not discuss the reality of many doctors having little actual knowledge and wisdom, instead following a recipe and asking as if they know how to cook.
He does not discuss the bribery in so many forms. He does not note that trust is predicated in large part on accountability, which existed only for doctors who expressed independent voices against the Covid narrative, not for those who pushed the shots or even for the companies that produced them — thus rendering the latter completely untrustworthy according to halacha.
He does not discuss the extreme skepticism Chazal and our poskim expressed about doctors, from the earliest times until Rabbi Moshe Feinstein in the previous generation, despite granting them a limited degree of authority under specific circumstances. (I wrote many articles about this, which only scratch the surface, and will share some links at the end.)
No, Weiss spent 16 minutes showing off his “scholarship” and making a perverted argument that we should blindly submit to the medical establishment.
The fact that Asher Weiss can cite many Torah sources and expound on them does make him righteous or trustworthy; it makes him more dangerous.
18:14 — Weiss asserts that medicine needs to be proven and logical, something we can explain and understand.
Those Covid shots were far from proven when Weiss jabbed his finger in your face and bellowed that they were safe. The notion that an injection would teach your body to produce spike proteins that were bad for it, which wouldn’t go where they weren’t supposed to, which your body would destroy and remember for the future, and then your body would stop producing them, was far from proven and quite a dubious sales pitch, besides.
But Weiss doesn’t go there, of course. Instead, he uses this assertion as a springboard to attack “alternative medicine”. You know, medicine that comes from nature, and knowledge that has been passed down from generation to generation, but largely muscled out by artificial, corporate medicine whose overlords branded “conventional”.
19:42 — Weiss takes it a step further by equating “conventional” medicine with natural remedies, and “alternative” medicine with segulos, mystical remedies such as amulets.
If your blood is not boiling by now, you should be disturbed that you are so desensitized. Hashem wants you to be outraged by such evil.
19:52 — Is it a proven treatment or not? Is it reliable based on our experience?
Were the Covid shots you pushed so emphatically?
20:11 — Weiss cherry-picks a few words from the Rema: “You only administer a medicine if it is known to be effective or if a mumcheh [expert] recommends it.”
This is hardly a black and white rule, with nothing else to say on the subject, but Weiss deviously takes these words way out of context:
“Which means, might be a new treatment, a new procedure, a new medicine that we are not really aware of.”
The Rema was referring to treating sick people in a sensible, responsible fashion. If no proven treatment is available, and the situation calls for it, we may need to rely on an expert recommendation for a treatment that we are not familiar with.
The Rema was most certainly not referring to injecting billions of healthy people with innovative, unproven, highly suspicious Covid shots because “experts” recommended it.
Of course, as far as Weiss is concerned, the same principle of trusting experts does not apply to experts who defy the establishment Weiss serves.
23:25 — Weiss advises “cancer patients, especially those who are desperately ill, to try anything, but not at the expense of conventional medicine that was proven to be helpful…proven statistically to be helpful, and the people that administer this medicine are reliable people and they bear consequences for wrongdoing.”
If you lie persistently and confidently from a position of authority, you can get people to believe anything.
23:58 — “With conventional medicine you don’t know who are the charlatans and who are the serious ones and probably there are serious ones. Most of this stuff was not statistically proven and many of these remedies we don't really have a clear explanation how they work.”
He meant to say unconventional medicine. What a delicious Freudian slip.
Meanwhile, Weiss continues to lump everything outside the establishment in one basket, and equate it with segulos, amulets, and other mystical, inexplicable treatments. Hence, even if some of them work some of the time, we really shouldn’t be going there — and never in place of “conventional” medicine:
25:09 — “So alternative medicine, I don’t want to say is illegitimate, but it should never be taken instead of conventional medicine.”
Really, never?
Weiss proceeds to wax nostalgic about the Covid era, particularly when people were suffering the most.
26:01 — “I think Covid stage one brought out the best in us. There was a feeling of Kol Yisrael Areivim Zeh Lazeh, people cared about one another. We locked ourselves in our homes. We closed shuls. The young, the healthy, the vibrant understood that they must limit activities to care for the elderly, for the feeble, for the ill. It was a very special atmosphere.”
Ah, the good old days. Isn’t that how you remember them?
I remember, among other things, elderly people in nursing homes and hospitals being refused visitors, deteriorating and dying alone.
It was definitely a “special atmosphere”, but, then again, so were the ghettos and concentration camps, which also brought out the best in some people.
26:33 — “And then at some stage everything fell apart and our society was torn about and unraveled and it brought out so much machlokes [division] and so much strife and so much pegiah b’chvod haTorah [damage to the honor of Torah].”
Weiss is not referring to charlatans like himself causing the strife with divisive rhetoric and damaging the honor of the Torah by misrepresenting it. He is referring to those who ceased obeying the high priests of Covid.
He then makes an unintelligible rambling analogy to the seven years of plenty in Egypt preceding the years of famine before stating this:
27:43 — “And one of the, I think, problematic things of the period of Covid was in many circles in our communities that didn't trust the medical establishment. But it caused a total breakdown and a total mistrust in medicine, in doctors and whatever doctors say, whatever they represent. These insane conspiracy theories — and I really want to say insane, because that is the way I see it — and it caused a total breakdown of trust. Trust we always had since Chazal said “מכאן שניתנה רשות לרופא לרפאות” [from here the doctor is given the right to heal].”
Weiss does not venture to explain how a fringe minority of people with insane ideas caused a total breakdown and total mistrust in medicine in doctors, especially in contravention of Chazal and thousands of years of supposed “trust we always had.” As always, he relies on rhetoric and deception to swerve around the elephant in the room.
28:43 — “No profession is clean from charlatans. But generally speaking we need to trust medicine because otherwise we are totally lost. And it goes against מכאן שניתנה רשות לרופא לרפאות. That means you trust your doctor.”
No, snake, it means a doctor has permission to properly treat sick people, not poison healthy people or take over society.
For the next few minutes Weiss bloviates more about this lack of trust, the phenomenon of cancer patients who won’t go for radiation and chemotherapy, and parents who won’t give their children the measles shot, before returning to his favorite scare tactic:
32:20 — “We don’t want to go back where we were 100 and 200 and 300 years ago. Smallpox wiped out 50% of the population in Europe! Just think what 50% means. Many gedolei Yisrael died from smallpox, from cholera. I remember polio when I was a young kid. So many people were in wheelchairs, couldn't move their legs. And these diseases didn't go away because someone wrote a kemiah [amulet]. Vaccines took away these diseases.”
And a fat man came down your chimney with presents.
Weiss concludes with one final distortion of the Torah:
35:53 — The concept of shomer pesa’im Hashem, that God watches over those who behave with simple innocence, only applies to those who blindly follow instructions and guidance of establishment doctors, no matter how much or little they know.
“So you’re always on the safer side even in Torah hashkafa and in Halachic hashkafa by following the rules, the attitudes, the approaches, the recommendations, the guidance of the medical establishment and of doctors of our communities.”
Weiss distorted this concept as well in his finger-jabbing Covid video from 2020. Safe and effective indeed. Five days later I explained the actual Torah perspective in my article “‘God Watches Over Fools’ Explained”.
It is high time we stopped tolerating charlatans, frauds, false prophets, sold-out creeps, hocus-pocus rabbis, and Erev Rav moles in our communities. It is high time we stopped showing them deference, keeping silent, and allowing them to bring spiritual and physical harm on our people. It is high time we stopped making excuses, hiding behind buzzwords like achdus and avoiding machlokes to cover for cowardice and apathy.
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