Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the most senior leaders of the ultra-Orthodox world, has said that women must be stricter in observing the laws of modesty as part of efforts to “rectify the divine decree” which brought about the Mount Meron disaster last week.
In the document, Yitzhak Shaul says he has been asked by many people to ask his father why the disaster at Mount Meron on Lag Ba’omer last week took place.
“[Kanievsky] responded that ‘It is a decree from Heaven and we cannot know the considerations of Heaven,’” wrote the rabbi’s son.
“I asked him what needs to be rectified and our master, the minister of the Torah, replied: ‘[we] must strengthen ourselves in Torah and persevering in [the study] of Torah,’ and he repeated this several times,” and added ‘and women should strengthen themselves in modesty,’” wrote Yitzhak Shaul.