Dear Editor,
Why is there deafening silence on the school tuition issue? Like tuition doesn’t end after playgroup? Only playgroups deserve a discussion about whether they should be paid? What about parents who are paying thousands each month for school tuition?
At the very least, schools should acknowledge that it’s a legitimate question.
In a perfect world, these steps should have taken:
1. Very early on in Covid-19, every school should have sent a communication to the parent body, acknowledging that’s it’s a question that they are working to resolve fairly. Almost no schools mentioned it to their parents. How unfair.

By Rabbi Yechiel Rhine

It is hard to believe that only two short months ago, before corona hit, my dining room was just that, a room where our family dined. A clear, unused table that we dressed up lekavod Shabbos sat in the center of the room. Two curios and a buffet balanced out the rest of the space. Though empty all week, when Shabbos arrived, it all came to life.

By Rabbi Yehoshua Katzman
Over the past few weeks, we have heard people saying to avoid doing certain things so as not to make a chillul Hashem. We have been told to refrain from even doing things that normally would be considered a mitzvah, such as tefilah b’tzibbur and tefilah b’bais haknesses.
Even in cases where there is no risk of infection and no legal issues, such as davening outdoors, people are saying that we must keep the minyan to ten men at maximum in order to avoid chillul Hashem. Being that the mitzvah of kiddush Hashem and the aveirah of chillul Hashem were found in this past week’s Parshah, I would like to elaborate a bit about the true meaning of these mitzvos.

When Staying Home with My Special Needs Child is Almost Worse Than the Virus Itself
Dear Governor and Lawmakers,

Dear Frum Doctors,
Let me begin by thanking you for your outstanding service to the community during this difficult time. Your devotion and Misirus Nefesh towards your patients is an inspiration and an immeasurable Zchus for you and your families. Indeed, in normal times there would be no need for a non-medical professional like myself to address you on medical issues. However, these are not normal times and as Covid 19 continues to wreak havoc on the world at large, and our communities in particular.

By an avel
I recently got up from Shiva for another of Corona’s victims and immediately sat down to write this short article in the hope that my family’s experience using Zoom for the Shiva will help others during this unfortunate time. May it never be necessary, but should someone have to sit Shiva, the lessons we learned from our experience may prove very helpful to Matzav.com readers.

Dear Matzav,
I only have a few minutes to write because I have to get back to coordinating my kids’ numerous school teleconferences and printing out all their school sheets, which has become a full-time job.
I want to first thank all the amazing rabbeim and teachers who are so devoted during this shutdown. What they are doing is mamish amazing. These people are angels.
But we, parents, are not.
We are at our breaking point.
If you are lucky to have 5 children, the current system means five teleconferences every morning, plus some additional ones now that they started doing English, too.

Dear Editor@Matzav.com,

Aveilim – and all people using the phone much now: Do not use a cell phones or cordless phone all day long!

Dear Editor,
A gitten Zimmer.

This was definitely one for the books. A Yom Tov apart from our families. Sedarim with one or two people. But BH we made it thorough and we passed with flying colors, as the saying goes. Now as we count down, or up to Lag B’omer and Shvuos, it is incumbent upon us to shteig just as the count does. Someone mentioned that his learning and shmoneh esrei’s have never been better. This probably applies to most of us. We have been taken out of our normal element, out of our shuls, and thrust into a lonely davening. But the reality is that it was always about two, each of us and Him. And that is what it is now.