A Plea to Rabbis Not to Submit to Tyranny, by Shoshanna Silcove

The paranoia, the mass hysteria, the naivety of many of the Rabbis when it comes to the COVID medical tyranny, who totally submit to the tyrannical lying government with their ignorant Draconian decrees and virtue signaling, that is destroying Jewish life, all combined, means it stinks to be in the frum community these days. I am especially disappointed in many of my fellow Chabadniks. Have they forgotten what it means to have courage? These are descendants of Jews who were unafraid under the Soviet oppression, who would go to the ends of the earth to make sure the mitzvah could be performed even under the pain of death. And many did indeed die. And today, supposedly in the name of pekuach nefesh (saving of life), they are slavishly, naively, and sheepishly submitting to and trying to force upon us absurd unnecessary restrictions, going even beyond what the government demands. Why? Because of fear from the mass hysteria and lies by the media? Because of fear of losing government funding? Fear of losing prestige, hence the virtue signaling? Some Rabbis say these extreme restrictions are for pekuach nefesh. I wonder, how exactly is this pekuach nefesh to go beyond what even the tyrannical corrupt government requires? As the Rebbe taught us to ask, "Mei Heicahn Dan Tuni"?( From where do you derive such a directive?). This is what our Rebbe taught us we need to ask Rabbonim when we cannot accept or understand their directives or decisions. Rabbis are not closer to Hashem than the rest of us. I daven that they remember the strong Chabad tradition and history of courage and of strength to go against the evil societal trends, and get a hold of their senses with the Chassidic adage of 'Moach shalit ha el ha lev',(mind over the heart) and use their Chochoma, Bina and Daas, (Knowledge, Intuition, and Wisdom) and do the work needed to truly understand the facts of the situation we are in before they do untold damage, especially to our youth!