Mishpatim 5780 “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot.” (Shemos 21:24) Chaza”l famously explain that this Pasuk refers to monetary compensation for physical injury. The Gemara in...
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Rabbi Yosef Sprung
Women in Scrubs – Room for Slack?
Tetzaveh-Zachor 5780 “You shall make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; they shall extend from the hips to the thighs. They shall be worn by Aharon and his sons when they enter the Tent of Meeting or when...
Sleep, Anesthesia, and Mitzvos
Vayikra 5780 If one’s offering is a burnt offering from the cattle, he shall offer an unblemished male; he shall bring it to the entrance of the Ohel Moed voluntarily before Hashem. (Vayikra 1:3) The Gemara (Arachin...
Do Ma’achalos Asuros Cause Diseases?
Shmini 5780 To distinguish between the contaminated and the pure, and between the creature that may be eaten and the creature that may not be eaten. (Vayikra 11:47) Following the spread of the novel coronavirus in...
Measuring a Hospital Visitor’s Temperature on Shabbos
Acharei Mot – Kedoshim 5780 And you shall not place a stumbling block before the blind. (Vayikra 19:14) This Pasuk defines the prohibition of Lifnei Iveir – causing another Jew to stumble in any manner...
The ECMO Lottery: Allocation of Limited Resources in Halacha
Behar – Bechukotai 5780 And your brother shall live with you. (Vayikra 25:36) The allocation of limited resources is a famously difficult quandary in medical ethics and Halacha. The Poskim grapple with...
