I am a medical student in the United States and am in the process of choosing a residency. Here in the States, there are some specialties in which one can obtain a residency that does not require working on Shabbos (eg, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry and radiology), whereas there are other specialties where working on Shabbos is a requirement (eg, general surgery, OB/Gyn, urology, cardiology). Is it permissible to pursue training in one of these latter fields in the United States?
It is preferable to train in a Shomer-Shabbat program. If one feels very strongly that he can best serve as a physician in a field which has no such program, it is permissible to train in a regular program. However, one should be very knowledgeable concerning the laws of Shabbat, which is quite a complicated matter.
כבוד הרב שלום אשתי ילדה לפני כ-5 חודשים בשעטו"מ האם מותר לה לקחת אמצעי מניעה? יש לציין שבמהלך כל חודשי ההריון היה לה מאוד קשה
שלום רב, לאחרונה עולה הנושא בתקשורת על החידוש שלזוג בנסיבות מיוחדות יתאפשר לבחור את מין העובר. לרוב, סיבות המתנגדים לכך בציבור שלנו הן, העניין של
