Showing posts with label Rav Silman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rav Silman. Show all posts
Feb 15, 2021
Interesting Psak: forcing vaccinations
I see the legal discussions on the possibility of forcing people to vaccinate - such as forcing teachers, forcing employees, etc. I don't really have any idea what the halachic side of this debate is. Halachically, can an employer force his employees to vaccinate, or fire them? Can a yeshiva force the rebbeim to vaccinate? can a school force its teachers to vaccinate in order to continue teaching?
According to Kikar, Rav Yehuda Silman, a prominent posek in Bnei Braq, has paskened that teachers - both in boys and in girls schools, in yeshivas and in seminaries - can be forced to vaccinate.
Additionally, Rav Silman paskens that an employer can obligate his employees to vaccinate. A Rosh Yeshiva can force the talmidim in the yeshiva to vaccinate or not let them come back to learn.
On the other hand Rav Silman also paskened regarding an avreich who missed time in kollel because he caught COVID-19 after refusing to vaccinate. The question asked was if the kollel could deduct that time from the stipend of the avreich, as the missed time was his own fault as he could have vaccinated. Rav Silman paskened that it should not be deducted form his stipend but he should be given the full stipend, until after Pesach.
I don't know what changes happen after Pesach. Maybe he feels that right now it is ok to insist on not vaccinating but after Pesach enough time will have passed that everyone should be vaccinated by then and one who is not yet vaccinated by Pesach is truly negligent and at fault.
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Apr 27, 2009
Housing Committee: Problem Solved
The committee dealing with the issue of avreichim marrying off their kids without going into debt by spending way too much money on apartments has been making progress. Under the direction of Rav Silman from Bnei Brak, they have worked out terms for avreichim to sign on - they will not spend more than $25000 for marrying off a son and no more than $45000 for marrying off a daughter.
In a recent development, the committee has come up with a new plan. The new plan is to set up a fund via which Jewish philanthropists from abroad will pay for "the rest" of the expenses, for any avreich who signs and commits to sticking to the limitation of the committee- the $25000 and $45000 respectively.
The idea is that any avreich committing to this is showing that he is not overextending himself by taking on too much debt. Such a person should have help for the other wedding expenses as well. (source: Mishpacha newspaper)
It kind of makes sense. If anyway the way the parents pay for the wedding is by traveling around the world knocking on doors to raise money to cover the loans they took out to pay for the weddings and apartments, and anyway donors from all over the world (combination of the $5 at the door to the gvir giving thousands) are covering that debt by donating to the parents knocking on their doors, there really is no reason to go through the middle stages.
I mean, why force them to travel and knock on doors? If they need the money, and the donors are going to give, this just cuts out the bother and expense of travel and fundraising. Now that they said they will pay less, they will still get the funding but without the bother. Problem solved.
In a recent development, the committee has come up with a new plan. The new plan is to set up a fund via which Jewish philanthropists from abroad will pay for "the rest" of the expenses, for any avreich who signs and commits to sticking to the limitation of the committee- the $25000 and $45000 respectively.
The idea is that any avreich committing to this is showing that he is not overextending himself by taking on too much debt. Such a person should have help for the other wedding expenses as well. (source: Mishpacha newspaper)
It kind of makes sense. If anyway the way the parents pay for the wedding is by traveling around the world knocking on doors to raise money to cover the loans they took out to pay for the weddings and apartments, and anyway donors from all over the world (combination of the $5 at the door to the gvir giving thousands) are covering that debt by donating to the parents knocking on their doors, there really is no reason to go through the middle stages.
I mean, why force them to travel and knock on doors? If they need the money, and the donors are going to give, this just cuts out the bother and expense of travel and fundraising. Now that they said they will pay less, they will still get the funding but without the bother. Problem solved.
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avreichim,
haredim,
Rav Silman,
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