Three Times More Corona Among the Charedim
The Silence on Rav Berland's Situation Brings Disaster - Words of Rabbi Aharon Schwartz

"A tzaddik has been in prison for a year without a trial! What is happening here? How can the world remain silent?" cries Rabbi Schwartz from the depths of his heart regarding the base and despicable treatment of our teacher, the great tzaddik, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a.
This is how Rabbi Schwartz's cry began.
"We will allow Rabbi Schwartz to say a few words," says Rabbi Shlomo Elmaliach shlit"a, passing the floor to Rabbi Aharon Schwartz.
"Gentlemen, what is happening here? What is this injustice? Everyone is silent! A tzaddik has been in prison for a year without a trial!"
"A tzaddik has been in prison for a year without a trial! What is happening here? How can the world remain silent?"
"We are shouting from here as well - where is the Charedi public? What is this silence of the Admorim? What is this silence of the Rabbis? A year in prison, a tzaddik is sitting in prison without a trial, without a conviction!"
"What is happening here? What a wicked injustice - this is not just an injustice of the State Attorney's Office and the judicial system, it is an injustice of the entire Charedi public! It is the silence of the entire Charedi public here!"
"That is why the Charedi public is paying three times as much in coronavirus! We are paying three times as much in coronavirus for the lashon hara (evil speech) accepted against tzaddikim, the lashon hara accepted against tzaddikim, woe unto us - such a tzaddik who practices self-sacrifice!"
"Our teacher, Rav Berland, was arrested for pidyon nefesh (redemption of the soul), a pidyon nefesh that is performed everywhere in the world!"
"A criminal fabrication by base informers, base informers, Charedim with beards and peyot! Base informers who cooperate with the police - why does the Charedi public not denounce them?"
"Why does the Charedi public not cast them out? Criminal fabrications in broad daylight, that is why the Charedi public is paying dearly - three times as many deaths from coronavirus, three times as many sick with coronavirus! Lockdown, another lockdown, another lockdown!"
"When will you understand? The moment Rav Berland was arrested, the coronavirus began! This is a punishment for the whole world for the humiliation of the tzaddik!"
"It is forbidden to be silent, it is forbidden to be silent!"
"We must shout!"
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