Balak 5780 Doctors, nurses, and members of Hatzala often need to carry out their work on Shabbos. Medical personnel are sometimes unable to avoid Shabbos hospital shifts, or are summoned on Shabbos to attend to a...
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End-of-Life Issues: Who Decides?
Vayechi 5781 And the time approached for Yisrael to die, so he called for his son, for Yosef, and said to him, “Please – if I have found favor in your eyes – please place your hand under my thigh and do kindness and...
Sweet Dreams
Mikeitz 5781 And Pharaoh said to Yosef, “I dreamt a dream, but no one can interpret it. Now I heard said of you that you comprehend a dream to interpret it.” (Bereishis 41:15) Parshas Mikeitz opens with the famous...
Genetic Engineering
Vayetzei 5781 And Yaakov then took fresh shoots of poplar and hazel and chestnut. He peeled white streaks in them, laying bare the white of the shoots. And he set up the rods which he had peeled, in the troughs, in the...
Davening Doctors
Chayei Sara 5781 And Yitzchak went out to converse in the field towards evening. (Bereishis 24:63) Medical personnel often work long shifts which may extend through an entire interval for Tefila. This gives rise to the...
Paying a Mohel
Lech Lecha 5781 This is My covenant which you shall keep between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. (Bereishis 17:10) One of the fundamental principles of Mitzva...
