Coronavirus can teach us to appreciate things we took for granted (new video)

[Chaim Ben Pesach]

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[Hrvatski Noahid]

The most important thing Gentiles should appreciate is the Seven Noahide Commandments.

The Gemara asks: From where are these matters, the Noahide mitzvot, derived? Rabbi Yoḥanan says: It is from that which the verse states: “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it, for on the day that you eat from it, you shall die” (Genesis 2:16–17).

The verse is interpreted homiletically as follows: With regard to the term “and…commanded,” these are the courts of judgment; and so it states in another verse: “For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice” (Genesis 18:19).

With regard to the term “the Lord,” this alludes to blessing the name of God; and so it states in another verse: “And he who blasphemes the name of the Lord…shall be put to death” (Leviticus 24:16). “God,” this alludes to idol worship; and so it states: “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:2). “The man,” this alludes to bloodshed; and so it states: “One who sheds the blood of man, by man his blood shall be shed” (Genesis 9:6).

With regard to the term “saying,” this alludes to forbidden sexual relations; and so it states: “Saying, if a man sends his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s…will that land not be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers” (Jeremiah 3:1). “Of every tree of the garden” alludes to the fact that one may partake only of items that are permitted to him, as they belong to him, and he may not partake of stolen items. “You may freely eat” alludes to the fact that one may eat fruit, but not a limb from a living animal.

https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.56b.4?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

[AsheDina]

Thank you, Chaim.
This was beautiful. I love you.

David Ben Moshe’s eyes are opening to Hashem and I try to steer him to listen to your videos about Gd. Because he loves you and trusts you more than anyone even me.

[Yehudayaakov]

Jewish minds never learn.

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

Chaim, I want to add one point of followup on the last video.

We can also find a positive Hashgacha pratis from Hashem in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and how it concentrated a lot of scientific talent, money, investment, effort and resources into combating it.   Rather than simply viewing it as a drain of resources away from innovative treatments for cancer and other diseases, there is a positive side to it as well.

By those companies who made those efforts, a lot was learned about protease inhibition (which is important to defeat viruses since they use proteases to spread) and structural biology for making new drugs.  This in turn led to remarkable advances against Hepatitis C.   This is true of Vertex Pharmaceuticals which first was working on HIV drugs and then moved into Hep C and developed a (at the time) revolutionary lifesaving treatment for Hepatitis C.   This is also true of one of the companies who made the most progress against HIV and have sold the most products for HIV, Gilead Pharmaceuticals.   Due to their focus and experience in the antiviral space with HIV, they also pivoted into Hepatitis C and were one of a couple of companies that developed a CURE for Hep C that made Vertex's previous advance (Incivek) completely obsolete in just a few short years.     
So already we can see that their work on HIV helped them to develop a cure for Hepatitis C.

But not only that, that same company (Gilead) has a drug in testing (which you know), remdesivir, which they originally developed to try to treat Ebola virus but they think can also work as an antiviral against Covid19. 

The NEJM just reported some case studies where it seems to help.  (This is not a definitive controlled study, but RCT's will read out soon).  https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007016
This drug could end up being part of a combo treatment to help people who are infected.  (I do not believe it will be a cure or anything close, but we know from past experience it is drug cocktails of several components with some efficacy that do the most damage against viral infections).


So even with the diversion of scientific resources to HIV, it may have helped pave the way to much greater understanding of combating viruses, and a much quicker path to combating covid19 with new medicines, not only from these companies that have greater capabilities but the advance of knowledge in general to all scientists from previous work done successfully (and unsuccessfully) against HIV.     So we can see the silver lining there too that the HIV experience may help us defeat covid19 faster.   

And as we know, "God creates the cure before the disease" (Megillah 13b).

The world's biological scientists have more knowledge than ever before. 
I happen to think the successful ebola treatment approach (antibody cocktail) will be the ultimate success story against covid19!