When does Halakhah allow a child to medically treat their parents?
Parshah Perspectives on Modern Medicine: Yitro One of the most ingrained images most people have of Matan Torah is that…
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Should a person with an infectious disease put on tefillin, if he knows that once the disease resolves the tefilling will need to be destroyed so as to prevent further spread of the illness?
Parshah Perspectives on Modern Medicine: Bo With concerns of infectious disease circulating in the media, it seems appropriate to ponder…
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Is it preferable for a Shabbat observant physician to trade Shabbat clinical duties with a non-observant colleague?
Perspectives on Modern Medicine: Shemot When the Torah introduces the beginning of the story of the Jews’ redemption from Egypt,…
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Seeking historical precedent for determining halakhic maternity when a child’s genetic mother is different than its birth mother
Parshah Perspectives on Modern Medicine: Va-Yigash When listing Ya’akov’s numerous descendants, one stands out as a seeming outlier: שאול בן…
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Does a child conceived well after his father passed away inherit his father’s estate?
Parshah Perspectives on Modern Medicine: Va-Yeishev The Torah describes that Yehudah’s son Onan is uninterested in performing proper “yibum” with…
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