The use of the mirena according to Halacha
The Schlessinger Institution To Whom it May ConcernHi, My name is S and I'm 38 years old and I'm from Cape Town, South Africa. I've been
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
The Schlessinger Institution To Whom it May ConcernHi, My name is S and I'm 38 years old and I'm from Cape Town, South Africa. I've been
שלום וברכה הרב ד"ר,שאלתי הינה באשר לאישתי.אנו נשואים ב"ה כחצי שנה , אישתי איננה מקבלת מחזור- ווסת קבוע אלא אחת לכמה חודשים עד חצי שנה
ב"ה לכבוד הרב ד"ר הלפרין שלום וברכה לאשה שבעת צום סובלת ממיגרנה האם ניתן להקל לה לשתות מים בתשעה באב. בכבוד וברכה.
Shalom,Before I ask my question I just want to inform you that at the moment I am not asking for a definitive psak halacha, I