Lech lecha 5780 “This is My covenant that you shall preserve between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that shall...
Yom Kippur 5780
Rabbi Yosef SprungBikur Cholim via Telephone: Technique vs. “Tachlis”
Vayeira 5780 “Hashem appeared to him in the plains of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day.” (Bereishis 18:1) Rashi explains that Hashem appeared to Avraham for the purposes of...
Triage Priorities – Does Age Matter?
Chayei Sara 5780 “And Avraham was old, advanced in years, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything.” (Bereishis 24:1) Honor and respect for the elderly is a hallmark of Judaism. Unlike other cultures that worship...
Hidden Matters – “Gender Reveal” in Halacha
Toldot 5780 “And the children agitated within her, and she said, ‘If so, why am I thus?’ And she went to inquire of Hashem.” (Bereishis 25:22) In recent years, prenatal ultrasound imaging (as well as other advanced...
Shiduchim and Disclosure of Confidential Medical Information
Vayeitzei 5780 And behold in the morning it was Leah. And he said to Lavan, “What is this that you have done to me? Surely, I worked for you for Rachel. Why have you deceived me?” (Bereishis 29:25) Those who are...
Husbands in the Delivery Room
Vayishlach 5780 “They journeyed from Beis El and there was still a stretch of land to go to Efrat, when Rachel went into labor and had difficulty in her childbirth. And it was when she had difficulty in her labor that...
Caregivers and Questions of Yichud
Vayeishev 5780 Then there was an opportune day when he entered the house to do his work – no man of the household staff being there in the house – that she caught hold of him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” But...
In God We Trust
Mikeitz 5780 It happened at the end of two years…” (Bereishis 41:1) Parshas Vayeshev concludes with Yosef’s plea to the Sar haMashkim to remember him, and help him procure a release from jail. The Sar haMashkim forgot...
“Yosef is Still Alive” – Communicating Dramatic News to Patients
Vayigash 5780 They went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to Yaakov their father. And they told him, saying, “Yosef is still alive”, and that he is ruler over all the land of Egypt; but his heart rejected...
Mitzvas Kevura and Issur Hana’ah in Organ Transplantation
Vayechi 5780 “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 truth...
