Sitting Shiva and Cremation of non-observant parents
I have a congregant who until his teenage years did not know he was Jewish and was even baptised. Both parents have been confirmed as
is a person allowed to turn a feeding machine on shabbat for a severely brain damaged child that is fed through their stomache, given that using a syringe will not be efficient enough and also will send the food too quickly into the stomache?
also, with regards to working in a hospital in chutz laaretz where all the patients are non jews, what is the source allowing a jewish doctor who has to work on shabbos in this hospital- something about the way the non jews will treat us, if he doesnt?
1. a person is allowed to turn a feeding machine on Shabbat for a severely brain
damaged child that is fed through their stomache, given that using a syringe will not be efficient enough and also will send the food too quickly into the stomache.
But wherever it is possible, those action should take place “Beshinuy”
2. It is permitted to treat a gentile on Shabbat.
See: Abraham S. Abraham, M.D., FRCP, Nishmat Avraham Volume IV Orach-Chaim, section 330, mark 2. (in Hebrew).
https://www.medethics.org.il/articles/NA/NishmatAvraham.OC.330.asp
I have a congregant who until his teenage years did not know he was Jewish and was even baptised. Both parents have been confirmed as
רחצת מטופלים בבית חולים נעשית על ידי שימוש בספוגים עם סבון (ספוגבונים). האם מותר לאחות להשתמש בהם בשבת לרחוץ מטופלים? האם ניתן בשינוי?
שלום וברכה! רציתי לשמוע מהי גישת ההלכה לגבי איסוף דם טבורי לאחר הלידה,ושימורו? האם אין זה התערבות במעשה הבריאה? (השימוש בדם חו"ח) תודה.