Dadon Kotel
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chair of Judaic studies, Ivana Lučića 3, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia,
Psychiatr Danub. 2022 Spring;34(1):116-125. doi: 10.24869/psyd.2022.116.
This paper explores and discusses some threats and challenges faced by the Jewish community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article begins with the perspective of Judaism on the tension between individuality and as part of the collective, as one of the direct results of the pandemic outbreak was life in isolation due to closures and fear from infection, a measure that had many implications on our daily life and health. The main part of the article deals with the challenges that the Jewish community faced during the pandemic. The challenges faced by the Jewish Community divided into two categories, general challenges and spiritual challenges. In the general part, the author explores the impact of the pandemic on the Jewish Community, on its structure and the spread of antisemitism. In the other part, regarding spiritual challenges, the author first brings the perspective of Judaism on mental illness and on the mentally ill, then he brings two guiding examples of spiritual challenges faced by the Jewish spiritual leadership during the pandemic.
本文探讨并讨论了犹太社区因新冠疫情而面临的一些威胁和挑战。文章开篇从犹太教的视角出发，探讨了个体性与集体性之间的紧张关系，因为疫情爆发的直接后果之一是由于封锁和对感染的恐惧而导致的隔离生活，这一措施对我们的日常生活和健康产生了诸多影响。文章的主要部分论述了犹太社区在疫情期间所面临的挑战。犹太社区面临的挑战分为两类，即一般挑战和精神挑战。在一般部分，作者探讨了疫情对犹太社区、其结构以及反犹主义传播的影响。在另一部分，关于精神挑战，作者首先阐述了犹太教对精神疾病和精神病人的看法，然后列举了犹太精神领袖在疫情期间面临的精神挑战的两个指导性例子。
