ALIQUIPPA Area residents had a shot at getting the COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic held at Central Outreach Wellness Center on Wednesday, but not many took it.
The clinic, which was organized in response to low vaccination rates in Beaver County, made 300 first doses of the Pfizer vaccine available to anyone eligible under Phase 1A and 1B of the vaccine rollout, and aimed to immunize the most marginalized area residents. However, those residents may not have been looking to get immunized.
From 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., when workers at Central Outreach were distributing first doses, only 69 people came in to get a shot.
March 9, 2021
The death of the Chasidic rabbi and famed psychiatrist, Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski, on Jan. 31 prompted much coverage in the U.S. and Israel, where he lived in his later years. But the press missed a major element of his important legacy.
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Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski was the author of a more than 80 books.
The obituaries covered his religious and universal appeal through the more than 80 books he wrote, his breakthrough work on drug and alcohol addiction through the Gateway Rehabilitation Center he founded in Pittsburgh, and his friendship with “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz, whose comic strip the rabbi used as a tool with his patients, attributing great psychological insights to Charlie Brown.
brachah, “Who
brachah that warrants a change from the present tense to the past tense?
The
Machatzis Hashekel raises this question, and says that although he has no explanation for it, we should nevertheless recite the
brachah as it is written in the
siddur. If I may be so bold, I would like to suggest an answer, based on a story of Rebbe Zusha of Anipoli.
Rebbe Zusha lived in abject poverty. He wore tattered clothes and fasted frequently. He was asked, “How can you recite the
brachah, thanking Hashem,
‘Who has provided me with all my needs’ when you are obviously lacking the basic needs?” Rebbe Zusha, who always had a cheerful disposition, responded, “Hashem knows my needs better than I do. He knows that one of my needs is poverty, so He gives it to me.”
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