Either way, Kipa is reporting that Chief Rabbi Rav Dovid Lau has published a letter in which he lays out what should be done with these cars. Rav Lau paskens that burial of car parts is only to be used as a last resort. After sending a special team to analyze the cars and figure out how to handle them, there is a difference between upholstery that absorbed blood and metal/aluminum body of the car that did not absorb blood but has remains on it. A special team should be recruited to gather any remaining remains and efforts should be made to not require burial of metal car parts.

metal surfaces should be scraped of human remains and then once clean the metal should be sent to the scrapyard. The metal can be recycled and used for other purposes. 

Rav Lau said it is important and pikuach nefesh to identify the bodies. Positive identification will also allow them to understand who was and who was not taken captive by Hamas and therefore the work must continue.

They paskened that:

1. All instructions and guidelines from the Home Front Command must be strictly observed. If they say to stay home, stay home and dont go out, even for prayer services

2. Daven only in a shul that has, or has nearby, a protected area. Elderly and those who are unwell and walk too slowly, should daven at home and not go to shul

3. Whoever holds a license to carry a gun has a mitzva to carry the gun with him on Shabbos

4. If a siren is heard during the shmoneh esrei tefilla, go quietly to the protected area and then continue davening from where you left off

5. Try to have at least one armed person in every shul

6. Every shul should have a phone, placed there on Friday, to be available for use. When necessary one can keep his phone on silent and vibrate in his pocket

4. Leave the radio on tuned to the silent station to be updated by Home Front Command should it be necessary

Hatzlacha and hopefully it wont be necessary and will just be a precaution

Rav Lau was asked if it is allowed to conduct the selichot services accompanied by musical instruments.

According to Kikar, Rav Lau referred to the historical basis for banning musical selichot. Rav Lau said it is a fairly new phenomenon nd preferably people should continue the tradition of the nusach that was accepted for many generations, but if someone feels the musical accompaniment adds to their inspiration and meaningful prayer, then it should not be prevented.

The original reason why musical accompaniment was banned was to reject the Reform who brought musical instruments into the services having copied the style form the Churches. There were some places and some circumstances where it was allowed, such as during the week rather than on Shabbos and holidays, or at Kabbalat Shabbat, if davened early enough.

Rav Lau says that because today it is already common to have selichot services with guitars and violins, it cant be said that it is taken from the goyim. An organ would still be prohibited because of chukas hagoyim, but guitars and other such instruments would be ok.

Srugim is reporting that Rav Lau issued a psak for the delegations that their efforts should continue in the same manner on Shabbos - they should continue their efforts to save lives and provide relief and search for survivors and to provide medical care.

With the engineering corps it is especially interesting, as Rav Lau said as long as there is a chance of survivors, efforts to find and rescue people form the rubble should continue. This isnt a new question and has been debated in other tragedies around the world - at what point do they decide there can be no more survivors? For now it is still too early for that, but if we approach another Shabbos, that question might become relevant. Let's hope the question will never come up and everyone will be rescued before that happens.

Rabbi Lau is now calling on the people with the psak to NOT daven for rain at this point. 

This should not be confused with praying for the rain to stop - he did not say that. The rain can continue naturally without our intervention via prayer.

Rabbi Lau issued a psak today saying the prayer for rain is no longer needed, consider the past week of good rains making up for a lot of the shortfall. The prayers for this are no longer needed.

Rav Lau has paskened that cultured meat is pareve but. "Pareve but" meaning, it is pareve, but....

Stressing that this only applies to the type of cultured meat he investigated and others that use other methods might be different, Rabbi Lau paskened this type of cultured meat is pareve, with some conditions and qualifications largely about the maris ayin aspect of it:

1. as long as there is supervision that the cells were taken from the embryo and all other parts and ingredients used in the process are supervised, this will be kosher and pareve

2. if it will be marketed as meat or as a meaty product, and if it is made to look like meat and taste and smell like meat, there would be room to be strict and consider it kosher but not pareve as far as eating/cooking it with milk

3. it should not be advertised alongside dairy products as doing so might cause people to be lax about milk and meat.

source: INN

bon apetit

  -- Chief Rabbi Rav Dovid Lau

the laws cannot determine halacha? Such as the law that only the Rabbanut can say something is kosher? Such as the law that only the Rabbanut can perform a kosher conversion? etc

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