Rabbi Adler Communications during Coronavirus pandemic

 
Chaveireinu Ha Yikarim
 
As it appears we are in for the long haul, I wish to inform you that our regular weekday shiurim will be meeting online at their regularly scheduled times. Please use the same dial in instructions as we used for the recitation of אבינו מלכנו.
 
Dial in instructions:
(1) Dial (605) 468-8784
(2) Enter the access code: 552192
 
There will be a communal online get together every evening for the recitation of tehilim or some other meaningful appropriate tefilot. We will assemble at 7:00 pm each night for tefilah and a Torah thought.
 
Once again use the same dial in code. Hopefully the system will enable me to connect on time.
 
I would also encourage you to look at your Yom Kippur machzor in the repetition of shmoneh esrai for Shacharit right after the chazzan says ועל כולם ... there is a paragraph that begins אבינו מלכנו זכור רחמיך and recite the entire paragraph in your shmoneh esrai in the bracha of שמע קולנו right before you conclude the bracha with the words כי אתה שומע . After inserting the paragraph continue with כי אתה שומע and complete the davening.
 
I want to make an urgent appeal to all parents. The objective of this imposed quarantine is to slow the spread of the virus. It will only be effective if EVERYONE cooperates. I realize how difficult it is to control children who may never have been confined to virtual house arrest in the past. But as a parent you must enforce the guidelines established by our doctors, hospitals and rabbis. When Yaakov is preparing for battle the Torah states at the beginning of Parshat Vayishlah the Torah states ויירא יעקב מאד ויצר לו he was afraid and agitated. Asks Rashi why two expressions? He answers one that Yaakov was concerned he would die and the other that he would be forced to kill. Each of us must stay home for 2 reasons. We can get the virus and be exposed to serious illness AND we can inflict damage to others by passing the virus to them. So let us all commit to support one another and abide by the recommendations of those who understand what we are experiencing.
 
Yosef Adler