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
שלום וברכה הרב! אני מתנצל מראש על גסות השאלה ועל אי הנוחות שאולי תיווצר לרב. בעוד כמה שבועות אני בעז"ה מתחתן. ומכיון שאיני בקיא במנהגים
שלום רב! השאלה שאכתוב כאן אינה הלכתית אלא עיונית- אמונית. ידוע כיום שנישואי קרובים צופנים בחובם סכנות לצאצאי נישואים אלה, בין השאר נישואי בני דודים.
I have a number of questions relating to residents from our home which I hope you would be kind enough to answer as soon as
