Pregnancy for 49 year-old mother of 6
Kvod Harav Halperin, I hope you are well.I live in Basel, Switzerland and I am 38 years old, a mother of 6 children and would
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
Kvod Harav Halperin, I hope you are well.I live in Basel, Switzerland and I am 38 years old, a mother of 6 children and would
האם מותר למי שיש עודף כולסטרול לקחת תרופה polycol של nutrelife כהרופאה אומרת שזה הכי יעיל? אם לא- האם מכירים משהו אחר? תודה
Dear Team at Schlesinger Institute I hope you are all well.Just wanted your views and possibly to point us towards some literature about the following case:Lady
1. האם זוג דתי שיוצא והבחורה חולה בסכרת וכידוע יש לזה סכנות בהריון, האם מבחינה הלכתית יש לבחור בעיה להתחתן איתה כיוון שיכולות להיות להם