Zinc, vitamin D, kabbalah and covid-19
The corona virus injects it’s DNA into the human cells and tries to trick the cell into making copies of the virus. Without enough zinc, the cell cannot differentiate between the virus DNA and the human DNA. So zinc deficient cell just keeps making more and more copies of the virus until they die. This is similar to the plague of fake news and false ideas that people spread viraly without differentiating whether what they are sharing is true.
So how can you differentiate between holy and mundane, between light and darkness, between Israel and the nations, between Shabbat and the weekdays?
Zinc in Hebrew is abatz, which spells aba tz, meaning righteous holy father.
אבץ = אב צ = אב צדיק
To in order to be able to differentiate, you need to consult. You need to ask a holy man, your parents, a righteous elder, the Torah, our Father in Heaven. First check to see if this new “great” idea in the article that was shared to you on facebook fits with our holy tradition before you spread it viraly by mindlessly clicking on that share button.
The physical, emotional, intellectual, and the spiritual are parallel. When we have a sickness, it is in all aspects together. In order for your body to know the difference, you need to take a double dose of zinc. The minimum recommended daily dose of zinc is 8 mg for women and 11 mg for men, so you should take at least 16 mg for women and 22 mg for men each day. In order for you to tell the difference between good and fake information, you need to take a double dose of consulting with righteous people who have had more experience than you.
I was thinking about this for a few minutes during the Friday night prayers, and thought of this:
Zinc x 2 = how will you differentiate?
האבץ 2 x= 196 = הבדלה + מנין
The Talmud says, “If you don’t have knowledge, then how will you be able to differentiate?” אם אין דעת, הבדלה מנין
Covid-19 in Hebrew is כבד-19 which is the same word as “honor”. “Honor your father and mother so that you will have a long life.” By honoring your parents by protecting them from the corona virus you yourself are protected and granted a long life. In addition, on a spiritual level you need to consult with your father and mother about what ideas fit with our holy tradition and are worthy of spreading.
Vitamin D deficiency is proven to weaken your immune system. Your body uses sunlight on the skin to naturally create all the types of vitamin D that it needs. Taking supplements helps only a little bit because it provides only one type of vitamin D, but what you really need is enough sunlight. I noticed some statistics that in New York a disproportionally large amount of people dying from corona are dark skinned people. New York does not have a lot of sunlight, and dark skinned people need much more time in the sun to produce the needed minimum amount of vitamin D. Another fact is that in cold cloudy England the doctors that died from corona virus were dark skinned. I would like to warn the religious community that they need to get enough sun exposure on enough skin. Having the prayers outside helps catching some sun. We really need to work on getting the men’s and women’s separate beaches open so that the religious people can sunbathe, and also ritually immerse. In the meantime I built a ‘sukkah’ boot on my roof to privately sunbath, and I think it is a mitzvah of “venishmartem” for everyone in the world to do the same. (don’t kick the sukkah if it gets too hot.) Some people asked for more proof that sunlight is really needed to prevent covid-19, so this Shabbat evening I thought for a few minutes about it and came up with this:
Sun = 640 = healing + corona-19
שמש = 640 = רפואה + קורונה-19
The numerical value of Sun = healing + corona-19. (that is corona minus 19. I know that it is usually called covid-19 but in Israel everyone calls it corona.)
Blessings
Zivi Ritchie
