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 רב, שמי ד"ר שרון בסן, אני ביואתיקאית וד"ר למשפטים הכותבת בנושאי אתיקה של טכנולוגיות פריון.לאחד המאמרים שלי אני מחפשת הגדרה הלכתית של "מהי עבודה"
אני מעוניינת להרות, אך הביוץ שלי מוקדם ועד המיקווה כבר לא ניתן להרות. האם ניתן להקדים את הטבילה?
A couple made use of a Jewish donor egg from a single woman. They want to have another child from the same donor, but she
