Health

05/14/26 - SHIUR 560 (6,616 Downloads)

Hear the Skinny on Ozempic in Halacha

Speakers : Rabbi Shay Tahan, Mrs. Tanya Rosen, Rabbi Elyada Goldvicht Category : Health

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Is there an obligation to keep healthy? If yes what is the source?
Does a spouse have a say in your health? Can you stop your spouse from donating a kidney etc?
Can you take ozempic if isn’t doesnt have enough testing what the long-term side effects can be? Or can it be taken even if it has doing some side effects?
Are you allowed to cause damage to your body?
Does it lengthen the time of Birchas Hamazon and every brocha Achrona because it takes longer to digest? Or vice versa if someone has quick digestion?
Are you obligated in brocha achrona even less than a kzayis because it makes you full?
Are you allowed to take on Yom Kippur even though it takes away ?עינוי
Is there an issue of Refuah on Shabbos?
Is there an issue of chilul shabbos with an injection?
Do you have to disclose in Shidduchim?

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08/21/25 - SHIUR 525 (22,092 Downloads) Hosted By: Rabbi Ari Wasserman

UnKosher Competition – The Four Halachic Red Lines in Business You Can’t Cross | Rabbi Berel Wein ZT”L – never published interview | The Headlines Quit Smoking Challenge

Speakers : Rabbi Dovid Schoen, Rabbi Berel Wein, David Kopciel, Rabbi Mendy Weinberger, Rabbi Yitzchok Grossman Category : Chinuch, Health

When is it prohibited to interfere with someone else’s pending transaction? (“Ani Hamehapech B’chararah”)

When is it prohibited to capitalize on someone else’s groundwork? (“Ani Hamenakef”)

Beis Din in Action:
• Outbidding someone for an apartment
• Poaching a long-term client
• Taking a business idea and running with it

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07/24/25 - SHIUR 522 (22,714 Downloads) Hosted By: Rabbi Ari Wasserman

Smoking and vaping – Is there any heter? What do smokers rely on?

Speakers : Rabbi Yehuda Spitz, Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, Rav Rafael Kleinman, Rabbi Yossi Sprung Category : Addiction, Health

Do any contemporary Poskim permit smoking?
Is vaping halachically better than smoking?
What’s the argument that smoking is permitted?
What are the risks of second-hand smoking and vaping?
If someone already smokes, do they need to quit?
How far must a smoker distance himself from others?

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09/27/24 - SHIUR 485 (25,558 Downloads)

Are you allowed to take a shower on Yom Tov? | Are you allowed to give a donut to an obese person, and other fascinating shailos | Combating domestic abuse in our community

Speakers : Dr. Shana Frydman, Rabbi Yona Reiss, Rabbi Mendy Abrahamson, Rabbi Aharon Sorscher Category : Health, Yom Tov

תכלה שנה עם קללותיה
Combating domestic abuse in our community

Showering us with Brocha
Three day Yom Tov – Are you allowed to take a shower on Yom Tov?

לא תעמוד על דם רעך
Are you allowed to give a donut to an obese person, and other fascinating shailos

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08/29/24 - SHIUR 481 (15,446 Downloads) Hosted By: Rabbi Ari Wasserman

Ozempic and weight loss injections – wonder drugs or a failure of our generation?

Speakers : Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner, Dr. Diana (Miriam) Isaacs , Rabbi Dr. Zev Wiener Category : Health

What causes someone to be unhappy with their looks?
Are our bodies halachically our own, such that we can do what we want with it?
Can we take medications when we don’t understand how they work and when there are serious side effects?
Should weight-loss injections be used only after trying to diet and control eating?
Can we suppress our appetite if it will take away from Oneg Shabbos and Simchas Yom Tov?
If someone uses Ozempic to lose weight while dating, does it need to be disclosed?

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07/12/24 - SHIUR 474 (29,506 Downloads)

Halacha: Can an aging forgetful leader be replaced? | Should you allow your daughter to go out with a boy who smokes or vapes?

Speakers : Rabbi Shmuel Fuerst, Dr. Michael Zelefsky, Rabbi Zalman Graus, Malkie Scher Esq. Category : Health, Mental Health

Should you allow your daughter to go out with a boy who smokes or vapes?
Is a smoker Possul Lei’dus?
If your father asks you to buy him a pack of cigarettes are you allowed to listen?
When a president loses his sanity does he lose his staus as a president?
Would Halacha require an aging forgetful leader to step down?
If the population loses their trust in the president (or leader) can they Halachically oust him?
When a husband loses his sanity can his wife or children take away his business?
When a father loses his sanity can his children take from his money for their wedding expenses?

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09/01/23 - SHIUR 434 (27,290 Downloads)

מי יחיה מי ימות Community organizations dealing with life and death issues daily and some of the שאלות that arise

Speakers : Rabbi Moshe Rotberg, Mr. Eli Rowe, Mr. Nir Salomon Category : Abortion, Doctors, Health, Shabbos

For what type of situations should you be calling Hatzalah.
How should you call Hatzalah – with a shinui etc ?
Can you turn on outside lights to make it easier for Hatzalah to identify the house?
If you have to go to the hospital on Shabbos what do you have to know – what can you take clothes, phone, wallet etc?
Is it better to go with Hatzalah or drive yourself or go with uber?
Do you have to go to the closest hospital or to a further one – out of the T’Chum
Should you cancel Hatzolah if all is good and you don’t need them anymore?
If you madean early Shabbos should you be Matir Neder and then drive youself to the hospital?
Who can go along with the patient?
What can you or can’t you do in the hospital?
When can you come back home on Shabbos and when not?

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10/24/20 - SHIUR 294 (17,638 Downloads) Hosted By: Rabbi Ari Wasserman

Police and Police Enforcement; what if it’s discriminatory

Speakers : Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz, Rabbi Meyer Twersky, Mr. Ben Brafman, Dr. David Lieberman, Rabbi Moshe Hauer Category : Coronavirus, Health, Racism

Is sticking up for our rights a Kiddush HaShem or Chilul HaShem? Is holding a protest the right way? Do we need to strictly comply with secular law, or is there flexibility? What if the enforcement of the laws is discriminatory against observant Jews? What if we disagree with the laws? What if the laws close down our yeshivos, shuls and weddings?

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10/17/20 - SHIUR 293 (19,132 Downloads)

Being in the Headlines – Did we forget we are in Galus?

Speakers : Rabbi Avrohom Kahan Category : Advocacy, Coronavirus, Health

Our communities response to Covid examined halachically:
Agudah: A remarkable change of decades of policy unnoticed by many
Lakewood: Is the Covid Vaads Psak that a shul is מגין ומציל and therefore no need for masks consistent with Halacha?
The multitudes of sick in Monroe: Is there a mitzvah of Hatzala to a community that exhibits reckless behavior?
Belz: Is it justified to risk lives of some to save lives of others?

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03/28/20 - SHIUR 265 (21,822 Downloads)

Contemporary Corona Halacha questions

Speakers : Rabbi Aharon Sorscher, Rabbi Shmuel Honigwachs, Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, Councilman Yitzy Schleifer Category : Chametz, Coronavirus, Doctors, Health, Pesach

Paying playgroups and tuitions, deposits on hotels for Pesach and chasunos, mikvah and tevilas keilim, taanis bechorim, mattir kitniyos, selling chametz gamur and over phone, autopsies, Milah and metzizah b’peh, being moser on those not following govt guidelines

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12/05/15 - SHIUR 46 (2,878 Downloads)

Shailos and Teshuvos: Special one year anniversary show with the Gadol Hador the Raavid of the Eidah Hacharaidus, Hagaon Hagodol Harav Moshe Shternbuch Shlita

Speakers : Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch Category : Health, Marriage, Shabbos, Terrorists, Tznius, Vaccines

Special one year anniversary show with the Gadol Hador the Raavid of the Eidah Hacharaidus, Hagaon Hagodol Harav Moshe Shternbuch Shlita.
He will be talking in English a conversation with Dovid Lichtenstein about modern contemporary halachic issues.
Topics will include Hafgaas kidushin in todays age, genetic testing,  prenuptial agreements in todays times, is it a smart idea, is it halachically acceptable? vaccinations for children, should one follow his doctors advice or his Rovs? shaking hands with the opposite gender in the workplace, motion sensors, the kosher switch and grama on shabbos. Daas torah: what lesson should be taken from the…

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11/07/15 - SHIUR 42 (1,624 Downloads)

Discrimination and the situation in Israel today | Vaccination in Halacha | Alternative Lifestyles | Smoking in Halacha | Elana Silber of Sharsheret

Speakers : Rabbi Dovid Yosef, Rabbi Dovid Cohen, Elana Silber Category : Alternative Lifestyles, Eretz Yisroel, Health, Racism, Vaccines, Yeshivos

Discrimination and the Situation in Israel today Vaccination in Halacha Alternative Lifestyles Smoking in Halacha Ilana Silver of Sharsheret: An Organization that helps Women with Breast Cancer

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