Fwd: כללי התנהגות לראש השנה ויום הכפורים שנת תקצ"ב לקהל עדת ישורון פוזנא
אליעזר וייל
מאת: Avraham Fraenkel <avra...@gmail.com>
Date: יום ו׳, 21 באוג׳ 2020, 6:11
Subject: Fwd: כללי התנהגות לראש השנה ויום הכפורים שנת תקצ"ב לקהל עדת ישורון פוזנא
To: אמיליה וייל <emili...@gmail.com>, אליעזר וייל <elie...@gmail.com>
From: David Havin <djh...@djhavin.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020, 03:02
Subject: כללי התנהגות לראש השנה ויום הכפורים שנת תקצ"ב לקהל עדת ישורון פוזנא
To: David Havin <djh...@djhavin.com>
Greetings,
I do hope that you are in the best of health.
On 18 July 1831, the second cholera pandemic struck the city of Posen (then in Prussia, but today in Poland) and Rabbi Akiva Eiger – one of the most outstanding rabbis both of his generation and since then – immediately established a Mosaische Cholerakommission, which issued regulations to prevent its spread.
Prior to the ימים נוראים further detailed and comprehensive regulations were issued by the commission. The regulations (17 in total) dealt with, amongst other matters, a rota determined by ballot amongst the members of the community with half attending shule on ראש השנה and the other half on יום הכפורים, social distancing (to be enforced by the military and the police), the maximum allowable time for the תפילות and which פיוטים were to be omitted. They make for fascinating reading.
As a result, the government commission was able to report that the mortality rate of victims of the pandemic was relatively low in Posen and it ascribed that fact to the benevolent influence of the “venerable old chief rabbi”. In consequence of this report, Rabbi Akiva Eiger received royal recognition for his efforts in the form of a commendation by King Frederic William III of Prussia, in which the services of Posen Jewry were pronounced worthy of emulation by others.
כתיבה וחתימה טובה
David Havin