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Makhon Asifas Zikainim
- Advice & segulos from our Sages on avoiding epidemics (undated, before March 19, 2020; see also this related text in Hebrew, April 1, 2020)
- Worldwide united Tefillos tomorrow! (March 24, 2020)
Rabbi Shlomo Brody, Tikvah Overseas Students Institute
- Does Jewish law oblige doctors to risk their own health to heal the sick? (April 2, 2020)
- Must a coronavirus carrier disclose that information? (April 3, 2020)
- Burial societies and funeral homes are overwhelmed. Cremation isn’t the solution. (April 24, 2020)
Rabbi David Golinkin, Schechter Institute
- Livestreamed Megillah reading for Purim (March 8, 2020)
- Message of hope and solidarity (March 17, 2020)
- Ten brief responsa/halakhic reactions to the corona crisis (April 2, 2020)
- Does halakhah require vaccination against dangerous diseases such as measles, rubella, polio and Covid-19? (Dec. 1, 2020)
Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzhal: Q&A (March 22, 2020)
Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon (for more guidance in Hebrew, see below)
- Zoom on Seder night? (March 29, 2020)
- Simchat Torah guidelines (undated, before Oct. 8, 2020)
- A halachic guide to outdoor winter minyanim during Covid-19 (Dec. 29, 2020)
- Cutting the line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine (Jan. 13, 2021) [Hebrew original]
- Visiting grandparents during the coronavirus pandemic (Jan. 26, 2021)
- Blessing over besamim (spices) for coronavirus patients (February 2021) [Hebrew original]
- Making a blessing on receiving the coronavirus vaccine (February 2021; original before Dec. 28, 2020) [Hebrew original]
Rabbi Avraham Steinberg, M.D., Shaare Zedek Medical Center: The Coronavirus pandemic — Historical, medical, and halakhic perspectives
- second edition (undated, before June 11, 2020) [Hebrew original]
- first edition (undated, before April 28, 2020) [Hebrew original]
Tzurba M’Rabanan (Mizrachi Press)
- Halachot of the COVID-19 era (November 2020, including material initially published earlier)
- Listening to the Megillah reading with a loudspeaker, by phone, online or over Zoom (February 2021)
Rabbi Asher Weiss, Jerusalem
- On specific aspects of payer in outdoor minyanim (March/April 2020)
- On praying with a minyan during an epidemic (March/April 2020)
- Medical triage (March/April 2020)
- Splitting ventilators (undated — March/April 2020?)
- Experimental treatments for coronavirus (undated 2020)
- Concerns about easing of coronavirus restrictions in Israel (April 26, 2020)
- May a researcher work on Shabbat to discover a coronavirus vaccine? (May 28, 2020)
- Appropriate conduct during a pandemic (published in English July/August 2020; original publication date unlisted)
- Obligation of proper hygiene and of preventative measures (published in English July/August 2020; original publication date unlisted)
- The ruling of Rav Yisrael Salanter during the outbreak of cholera (published in English July/August 2020; original publication date unlisted)
- A physician who must shave his beard in order to protect himself (published in English July/August 2020; original publication date unlisted)
- Lifesaving activity that endangers members of one’s own household (published in English July/August 2020; original publication date unlisted)
- Covid-19 vaccine (sometime between Dec. 16-21, 2020)
State-mandated cremation a posthumous ‘mitzvah,’ says leading Orthodox rabbi (March 29, 2020)
Hebrew
Sefer Heviani Hadarav: Hilkhot Mageifat Hacorona [600+ pages of guidance on wide-ranging issues by various authors] (content written on or before July 8, 2020)
Chief Rabbinate: Circumcision during the coronavirus pandemic (March 30, 2020)
Iggud Hakhmei Ha-Ma’arav: Use of Zoom during the Passover Seder (undated, before March 24, 2020)
Makhon Eretz Hemdah: Responsa on various coronavirus-related subjects (September 2020)
Rabbi Mordekhai Hayyim Aflallo: On the mitzvot associated with wearing a mask (undated, before Nov. 25, 2020)
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner
- Responsa on various coronavirus-related subjects (undated, before April 11, 2020)
- Should one recite a blessing over the Covid vaccine? (Dec. 20, 2020)
Rabbi Yehoshua Ben-Meir: Is there a blessing for receiving the Covid vaccine? If so, what? (February/March 2021)
Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Cooper, Tzur Hadasah
- Purim guidelines (undated, before March 10, 2020)
- Prayer in synagogue (March 13, 2020)
- Rosh Hashanah prayer guidelines (Sept. 16, 2020)
- Yom Kippur prayer guidelines (Oct. 4, 2020)
- Shemini Atzeret/Simhat Torah prayer guidelines (Oct. 25, 2020)
- Synagogue prayer outdoors post-pandemic (May 10, 2021)
Rabbi Raphael David Davis, ed.: Compilation of essays by multiple authors promoting vaccination (mostly in Hebrew, some in English) (January/February 2021)
Rav Shlomo Dichovsky: Fasting during the coronavirus pandemic (undated, approx. July 6, 2020)
Eidah Hacharedis proclamation on prayer and Passover (March 30, 2020)
Rabbi Re’em HaCohen, Otniel: Listening to the megillah remotely during quarantine (undated, before February 17, 2021)
Rabbi Yissocher Katz: Absence from synagogues during the coronavirus pandemic, in response to the ruling of R. Moshe Shaul Klein (approx. Oct. 1, 2020)
Chief Rabbi David Lau:
- Accepting a bill of divorce while wearing gloves (April 26, 2020)
- Guidelines for fasting on 17 Tammuz (July 7, 2020)
- Guidelines for fasting on Tisha B’Av (July 27, 2020)
- Guidelines for Yom Kippur (September 22, 2020)
Ohr Torah Stone
- Guidelines for Tishrei holidays during the coronavirus pandemic (August 9, 2020)
- The coronavirus pandemic in halakhah and hashkafah (ebook; undated, before November 4, 2020)
Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon, Sulamot:
- Purim-related guidelines for individuals in isolation (week of March 1, 2020)
- Communal prayer on multiple balconies (March 26, 2020) [abridged version]
- Alternative to ritually immersing utensils (March 26, 2020)
- Pidyon Ha-Ben (April 6, 2020)
- Haircuts during Sefira (April 23, 2020)
- Celebrating Israel’s Independence Day in quarantine (undated, before April 28, 2020)
- Making up for missed Mourner’s Kaddish (undated, before May 3, 2020)
- Reciting the Shehecheyanu blessing when seeing someone after leaving isolation (undated, before May 6, 2020)
- Weddings without ten people present (undated, before May 21, 2020)
- Prayers about coronavirus even as life returns to normal (May 24, 2020)
- The importance of returning to prayer in synagogue (undated, approximately May 24, 2020)
- Use of wet wipes on Shabbat to disinfect (undated, before June 3, 2020)
- When abridging Shabbat prayers, may one still include the Prayer for the State of Israel? (undated, before June 11, 2020)
- May one bend the metal nose-bridge on a mask during Shabbat? (June 24, 2020)
- May one move during prayer out of concern for maintaining social distance? (undated, before July 13, 2020)
- May one sanitize one’s hands after ritually washing them? (undated, before July 16, 2020)
- Fasting on Tisha B’Av during the coronavirus pandemic (undated, before July 29, 2020)
- Handwashing on Tisha B’Av during the coronavirus pandemic (undated, before July 29, 2020)
- Reciting the prayers and laments of Tisha B’Av during the coronavirus pandemic (undated, before July 29, 2020)
- Covering the mouth of the shofar (undated, before August 26, 2020)
- High holidays during the coronavirus pandemic (undated, before Sept. 11, 2020)
- High holiday prayers during the coronavirus pandemic (undated, before Sept. 11, 2020)
- Use of audio transmitters and receivers during outdoor communal prayer (undated, before Oct. 28, 2020)
- Outdoor communal prayer in cold weather (undated, before Nov. 4, 2020)
- Hanukkah- related and winter-related guidance (undated, before Dec. 9, 2020)
- May someone who can no longer smell due to Covid-19 recite the blessing over smelling spices? (undated, before Jan. 14, 2021)
- Cutting the line for coronavirus vaccination (undated, before Jan. 13, 2021)
- Gomel blessing after recovering from Covid-19 (undated, before March 14, 2021)
Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, Jerusalem: Communal Prayer on multiple apartment balconies (April 2, 2020)
Rabbi Asher Weiss, Jerusalem
- Collected lessons and responsa related to coronavirus, I (undated, before April 11, 2020)
- Music during the Sefira (undated, before April 26, 2020)
- Collected lessons and responsa related to coronavirus, II (approx. April 26, 2020)
- Collecting rent payments from tenants who left the country because of coronavirus (May 4, 2020) [clarification, May 8]
- Collected lessons and responsa related to coronavirus, III (approx. May 31, 2020)
- Fasts during the coronavirus pandemic (approx. July 7, 2020)
- Shofar blowing during the coronavirus pandemic (approx. Sept. 3, 2020)
- Collected responsa related to the fall holidays (3rd ed., Oct. 2, 2020)
Rav Yitzhak Yeshaya Weiss, Bnei Brak: Prayer and communal study during times of danger (May 8, 2020)
Rabbi Ze’ev Weitman, Alon Shvut
- Prayer in synagogue (March 14, 2020)
- Synagogues and communal prayers (March 15, 2020)
- Public outdoor prayers (March 16, 2020)
- Reciting the Memorial Prayer (Yizkor) privately (undated, before April 14, 2020)
- Socially distanced prayer and fasting on 17 Tammuz (July 3, 2020)
- Shofar blowing (September 6, 2020)
Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef
- Use of cellphones on Shabbat, isolation, hospital synagogues (March 18, 2020)
- Prayer on multiple balconies (April 2, 2020)