Chukat 5780 The intrauterine device (IUD) is a common method of contraception that can be utilized for an extended period. Broadly speaking, IUDs may be divided into two groups; copper devices and hormone-releasing...
Yom Kippur 5780
Rabbi Yosef SprungTraveling to and from the Hospital on Shabbos
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...
Frequently Asked Questions by Doctors: Hadlakas Ner Chanuka
Vayeishev- Chanuka 5781 Teshuvos from Moreinu HaGaon HaRav Asher Weiss shlit”a Contents 1) Lighting for One Who Arrives Home Late at Night. 3 2) Lighting in a Hospital Room Alone. 6 3) Shlichus for Ner Chanuka, Lighting...
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...
Are You My Mother? Maternity and Surrogacy in Halacha
Vayigash 5781 And the sons of Shimon: Yemuel, Yamin, Ohad, Yachin, Zohar, and Shaul, son of the Canaanite woman. (Bereishis 46:10) Who was “Shaul, son of the Canaanite woman”? Chaza”l reveal that he was the son born to...
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...
Shabbat and Eivah Concerns
Vayishlach 5781 And Eisav ran towards him, embraced him, fell upon his neck, and kissed him, and they wept. (Bereishis 33:4) The word “Vayishakeihu” (“and he kissed him”) in this Pasuk, has dots on top of all the...
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...
O Say Can You See
Toldot 5781 And it came to pass, when Yitzchak had become old and his eyes dimmed from seeing… (Bereishis 27:1) There is broad and extensive Halachic discussion of blindness. One of the important topics is 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...
