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Hundreds of men crowded into a study hall for the funeral of Rabbi Yechezkel Roth on March 7, 2021. (Screenshot from BoroPark24 via JTA)
JTA Hundreds of men flouted public health rules to crowd into a study hall in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn Sunday afternoon for the funeral of Yechezkel Roth, a Hasidic rabbi who lived in the neighborhood.
Roth died Sunday morning of a heart attack at 86 years old, according to Hamodia. So many people turned out for his funeral that hundreds could not get into the building and instead gathered in the street outside.
A livestream video of the funeral posted to the local news site BoroPark24 showed men packed tightly into the study hall, with hardly any attendees wearing masks. Coughing can be heard on the livestream.
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The Torah forbids a Jew from performing any
melacha on Shabbat (Ex. 20:10; 32:14-15; 35:2; Lev. 23:3; Deut. 5:14). Similarly, the Torah reports that when G-d finished creating the world after six days, He rested on the seventh day from all forms of
melacha (Gen. 2:2-3). The word
melacha is typically translated as “work” or “labor,” but in the laws of Shabbat it takes on a more exact meaning that bans 39 specific categories of work, but does not forbid other laborious activities. In this essay we seek to clarify the exact meaning of the word
melacha by comparing it to its apparent synonym
avodah, and mapping the relationship between these two Hebrew words.
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Two religious leaders, Jew and Catholic, each succeeded in breaching the wall separating church and state within two days of one another.
Evidently, I was never an American Jew because I cannot be a Jew and an American simultaneously. It was not the Catholic leader who issued this declaration, but a rabbi from Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section. Meanwhile, the retired church archbishop proclaimed that the incoming second Catholic president should be denied receiving communion because he dares to support abortion.
If I am no American, I suppose I voted illegally for decades. Then again, shouldn’t I demand all my tax revenues back?