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
לפני כחמש שנים הותקן לי התקן ג'ייניפיקס בפעם הראשונה, ולפני כשנתיים חדשתי אותו שוב. עתה ברצוני לברר מתי עלי להסירו או להתקינו מחדש? האם מסוכן
שלום וברכה, אני בהריון בשבוע 11 הריון תקין ברוך ה'. אני מרגישה עייפה וחלשה וסובלת מבחילות קשות ללא הקאות בכלל. בצום אהיה לבד עם ילדתי
I am teaching an Introduction to Jewish Law at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. In teaching Mishnah Yoma Chapter 8, particularly Mishnah 7,
