Venue: Stern College Stern College

Halacha:

Medicine,  Shabbat 

Collections: R' Torczyner Medical Treatment on Shabbat Spring 2024

References: Avoda Zara: 28B ,  Shabbat: 129A  

Description

Defining סכנת אבר and asking whether this is viewed as a threat to life (such that we violate biblical prohibitions) or as a painful illness (such that we violate rabbinic prohibitions). And starting on the case of חולה שאין בו סכנה and its definition.