Let Us Think For a Moment . ..

at first one reads, “ no Yom Kippur inside synagogues or Shuls”. 

This drives some people to anger, saying it’s downright anti religious. How could they deprive us what we have been doing for years?

But let’s apply what I suggest that for each of the strange or seemingly anti restrictions connected with this episode of the Corona, we try to find the opposite in a spiritual interpretation. The simple ones are

Masks = no Lashon Horah

Distancing = instilling better morality, no touching between un married men and women

Heat wave = cover up to protect from the suns fiery rays, like our Arab cousins do

Gatherings = also morality, which HaShem hates immorality very much, as well as the LGBT adherents

Now, “They” have proposed, No davening in Shuls. This actually takes us back to our early Jewish History, before houses of worship” were built. All the men wore their their tefilin practically all day long as they “spoke to G–D outside under the stars or blazing sun. After which they learned alone or in groups. 

Let’s say, that HaShem wants our heartfelt communication to come from deep inside our neshomas, not in groups by rote quickly in order to “get on with the day” (with secular life of the world). HaShem wants us to concentrate on the words and meanings of our dialog with Him. It is not really against the Torah to daven outside, however it should be with a minyan. And when distancing one is not going at his neighbor’s pace, but his own pace, a more thoughtful and meaningful pace.

Could this be what ”GOD” wants from us?

Think not restriction but expansion, opening up of the heart and mind.

One needs to apply a clear thought process in analyzing what we have been through over this past year. HaShem is speaking to us, and we must learn His language, and what He wants from us. And this “illness” has been brought down to inflict Israelis, to make them wonder about life, the why and what for. “leaders have failed them and they need to change course. Someone needs to tell them that they need to reach up to the heavens and cry out to GOD, and reunite with HaShem as they once did on Mt Sinai with Moshe Rabbeinu!

Davening is not a business in competition with one another, it is communing with GOD.