Family Administers Tzemach Tzedek’s Cure For Epidemic

By COLlive reporter

A new initiative was launched in Australia inspired by a letter of the Tzemach Tzedek (1789-1866), the third Rebbe of Chabad, which tells of a cure to perform during a time of an epidemic.

In a recent class, Rabbi YY Yehoshua Hecht explained that due to a plague that struck close to 200 people who died in a single town over 3 months, the Tzemach Tzedek listed numerous ways to bring that plague to an end.

One very important way, says the Tzemach Tzedek, is giving Tzedakah every hour on the hour and before every davening in a total amount of 18 coins in a day. If a person doesn’t have that amount of coins he should give less.

With Melbourne under lockdown due to a renewed outbreak of Covid-19, R’ Mottel Feiglin, President of Chabad Ohel Devorah of Melbourne, said he is administering the cure in his own household.

He said that the minute he told his wife Esther Feiglin about this segulah, she rushed to the bank and got packets of coins so they can do it every hour on the hour.

He suggested that a good way to make this a reality is by splitting it up among relatives with each being responsible to give tzedaka at another hour to make sure the 18 hours are covered.

He furthermore suggests that if you don’t have family around the world to do that, “spread it with friends on WhatsApp groups and get everyone at a different hour to give their Tzedakah,” he said.

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