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despite corona outbreak the Jerusalem chevra kaddisha noticed a remarkable fact. In parshas Tzav there were only THREE levayois. that’s right THREE!!! the weekly average is forty!! Since then the average is yerushalayim is eight!!!
I am totally missing your point. “In parhas Tzav ” did you mean during the week of Parshas Tzav? and what average is 40? a Normal week? Is that only people in Yerushalayim or does that iclude levayos of people from Chutz Laaretz with the kevurah n EY?
RR44: You have likely confused apples, oranges and ‘levayos”. There have been substantially MORE than 3 deaths in Yerushalayim every week since the beginning of March when the virus pandemic spread rapidly through EY. For obvious reasons during this period, the number of confirmed deaths in Yerushalayim may have little correlation with the number of “levayahs” however that number is measured because many of the normal number of levayahs may include those who were niftar outside EY but are flown to EY for burial. Also, because of restrictions in place, many small graveside burials with only several family members attending may not be reported as a “levayah”. I wish you were right, but clearly the number of those who were niftar is considerably greater than three for any recent week.
Maybe he/she/it means the number of people who died during the recitation of the leyning of “parshas (sic) Tzav”, because for those of us who think we realize that rates for things have to do with numbers-per-unit time, and not “parshas anything”. And this would seem to imply, given that people do die all of the time, that corona is causing fewer people to die than normal. But it’s impossible to tell because the writer seems unimpressed with baseline numbers, statistics, historical records, analysis, or probably rational thought.
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