The Mekubal and Tzaddik from Bnei Brak, HaGaon HaRav Shimon Galai, tested positive for the coronavirus for the second time on Monday.
HaRav Galai already was ill with the coronavirus over a year ago and recovered and therefore did not get vaccinated.
Last week, a few days after attending a wedding, HaRav Galai began feeling unwell and decided to get tested for COVID on Sunday, receiving a positive result on Monday.
HaRav Galai is known for his extreme caution in adhering to coronavirus regulations and didn’t even leave his home during the first six months of the pandemic.
Currently, HaRav Galai is at home but is feeling very weak and his talmidim and family members asked that Klal Yisrael should daven for him. His name for tefillah is HaRav Shimon ben Esther Ita l’refuah sheleimah b’toch shaar cholei Yisrael.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Are they giving him Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, Doxycycline, Vitamin D, C, Zinc, Melatonin????
I hope so!
How come there is no monoclonal Antibodies in Israel? It is almost an instant cure! What is with this crazy world?!? Doesn’t anyone care? Where is the truth?
“HaRav Galai already was ill with the coronavirus over a year ago and recovered and therefore did not get vaccinated”
Hopefully the Rav will have a refuah shlemah but the media should STOP repeating this baseless and false meshugaas about people who have recovered from the virus do not need to be vaccinated. Studies in EY and the US clearly show that even people who have recovered from COVID-19 need to get vaccinated, especially as the extra-contagious delta variant surges. A new CDC study shows that survivors like the Rav who ignored that guidance were more than twice as likely to get reinfected and risk hospitalization. The new CDC report (posted last Friday) adds to growing laboratory evidence from EY that people who had one bout of COVID-19 get a dramatic boost in virus-fighting immune cells — and a bonus of broader protection against new mutants — when they’re vaccinated.