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Sholom U'Vracha. We spent a wonderful week together on the ship from Rome several weeks ago and the Sheila came up if Yechidim can make
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
Sholom U'Vracha. We spent a wonderful week together on the ship from Rome several weeks ago and the Sheila came up if Yechidim can make
שלום כבוד הרב, האם מותר להמשיך לטול גלולות (למניעת הריון) המכילות 20 מ"ג סוכר (יש להן טעם מתקתק) גם בצום? עד היום הייתי מניחה אותן
א. האם התרופה סימבסטיאטין כשרה לפסח? ב. האם תוסף מזון אופטימה כשר לפסח? תודה רבה וחג שמח