Abortions delay Messiah’s arrival, Israel’s chief rabbis say the high number of abortions in Israel are delaying the arrival of the Messiah, Israel’s two chief rabbis have said.
Published: 6:21PM GMT 29 Dec 2009
In a letter to Israel’s faithful, Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi chief rabbi, and his Sephardic colleague Shlomo Amar, said the country’s high rate of terminations cause a “delay [of] the messianic redemption,” according to a report on the Ynetnews website.
The letter condemned what the rabbis called “a veritable epidemic, which every year claims the lives of tens of thousands of Jews”.
They said there are about 50,000 abortions a year in Israel, 20,000 of which are performed illegally.