Medical Ethics: Mental Health and Mitzvot

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February 11 2019
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1h 29min 31s
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Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Halacha:
Medical Ethics,  Medicine 

Collections: Rabbi Torczyner Medical Halacha

References: Berachot: 19b ,  Berachot: 20a ,  Chagiga: 3b ,  Taanit: 22b ,  Avoda Zara: 28a  

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How can Halachah take Mental Health into consideration, when so much of the scientific understanding is new?; Mental Illness as a form of makkah shel challal; The four impacts of mental illness and emotional disorders which halachah considers: (1) threat to life; (2) great burdens of pain and stress; (3) incapacity for mitzvot; (4) prevention of future mitzvot. Not psak, not medical advice.

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