Tzav 5780 “If he shall offer it for thanksgiving, he shall offer with the thanksgiving offering unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafer smeared with oil, and loaves of scalded fine flour mixed with oil.”...
Yom Kippur 5780
Rabbi Yosef SprungDo 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...
Self-Endangerment and Participation in Coronavirus Vaccine Trials
Tazria – Metzorah 5780 Pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions around the world are rushing to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. As in previous vaccine trials, the development of the vaccine is taking...
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...
Showering on Shabbat after Working with Infectious Patients
Emor 5780 For six days labor may be done, and the seventh day is a day of complete rest, a holy convocation, you shall not do any work; it is a Sabbath for Hashem in all your dwelling places. (Vayikra 23:3) One of the...
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...
Miscarriages, Ultrasound, and Pidyon haBen
Bamidbar 5780 “And Hashem spoke to Moshe saying, “Behold! I have taken the Levi’im from among the Children of Israel, in place of every firstborn, the first issue of every womb among the Children of Israel, and the...
Refua and Halacha: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
Shavuos – Naso 5780 R’ Yishmael (his) son [of R’ Yochanan ben Broka said: One who studies Torah in order to teach is given the opportunity to study and to teach; and one who studies in order to practice is given...
ברוך דיין האמת – הרב אליהו בקשי דורון זצ”ל
יחד עם כל בית ישראל קיבלנו את הבשורה המרה על הסתלקותו של הראשון לציון, מרן הגאון הרב אליהו בקשי דורון זצ”ל בזכרוננו עוד טרי הרושם העמוק מאירוע פתיחת בית המדרש להלכה ורפואה, לפני יותר משנה, כאשר בין גדולי...
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