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To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« on: May 10, 2021, 10:27:17 PM »
Do you also ask your Doctor for Brochos?
(My Rov says I should take the Vaccine...)
Whether you think you can or you think you cannot, you're right.

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2021, 10:28:45 PM »
My rov tells me to ask my doctor

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2021, 10:34:46 PM »
Do you also ask your Doctor for Brochos?
(My Rov says I should take the Vaccine...)
you clearly don't ChapTheMatzav

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2021, 10:37:28 PM »
Do you also ask your Doctor for Brochos?
I’ll take it from anyone
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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2021, 10:38:35 PM »
you clearly don't ChapTheMatzav
At least he has a rov to guide him through the matzav

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2021, 10:42:44 PM »
At least he has a rov to guide him through the matzav
a Rov who he apparently asked his seemingly 'worthless' opinion on taking the vaccine. Unless of course his Rov is a doctor. Why else would his Rov voice his opinion on vaccines

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2021, 10:45:05 PM »
Do you also ask your Doctor for Brochos?
(My Rov says I should take the Vaccine...)
Who do you ask when halacha and medicine intersect?
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2021, 10:45:32 PM »
a Rov who he apparently asked his seemingly 'worthless' opinion on taking the vaccine. Unless of course his Rov is a doctor. Why else would his Rov voice his opinion on vaccines
Maybe the rov ChapsTheMatzav

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2021, 10:46:13 PM »
Who do you ask when halacha and medicine intersect?
That’s where the “Rabbi Dr’s” come in handy. :)

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2021, 10:58:08 PM »
That’s where the “Rabbi Dr’s” come in handy. :)
Even if he is a doctor, the odds of a dayan being a specialist in the area you are asking about is slim to none.
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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2021, 11:00:38 PM »
Who do you ask when halacha and medicine intersect?
A Rav who's an expert in the matter, eg R' Gissinger z"l and fertility. Not an LOR.

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2021, 11:01:16 PM »
Even if he is a doctor, the odds of a dayan being a specialist in the area you are asking about is slim to none.
There are rabbanim who are in touch with specialists on a daily basis.

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2021, 11:03:11 PM »
That’s where the “Rabbi Dr’s” come in handy. :)
They say a story about the Satmar rov. He was once introduced as "Hagaon Hatzadik." When he got up to the podium, he said, "when I was growing up, there were those who were gaonim, but not so extraordinary in their tzidkus. And there were also those who were great tzadikim, but they weren't necessarily such big geonim. When someone was called a gaon, we understood it meant 'and not a tzadik', and when someone was called tzadik, we understood it to mean 'and not a gaon.'

"Today," the Satmar Rov concluded. "We must say Hagaon Hatzadik, to portray that he's not a tzadik and not a gaon!"


Now to our conversation... I always feel that a Dr. Rabbi is neither a doctor nor a rabbi...

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2021, 11:08:03 PM »
Now to our conversation... I always feel that a Dr. Rabbi is neither a doctor nor a rabbi...
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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2021, 11:10:51 PM »
I always feel that a Dr. Rabbi is neither a doctor nor a rabbi...
A shame you didn’t know Rabbi Dr. Twersky. A great rabbi & a great Dr. in his field.

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2021, 11:12:21 PM »
A shame you didn’t know Rabbi Dr. Twersky. A great rabbi & a great Dr. in his field.
In my mind, a doctor is someone who can save a person who is having a heart attack on an airplane. Yes, I listen to Ben Shapiro too much.

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2021, 11:14:30 PM »
Who do you ask when halacha and medicine intersect?
A Rov should know when to answer and when to tell you to ask a doctor. There are some questions the doctors and Rabbonim know, but if a Rov that can't tell you to ask your doctor when you should ask your doctor, he probably shouldn't be your Rov.

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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2021, 11:16:06 PM »
In my mind, a doctor is someone who can save a person who is having a heart attack on an airplane. Yes, I listen to Ben Shapiro too much.
That's an EMT or Paramedic...
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Re: To all those that ask medical questions to your Rav...
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2021, 11:16:39 PM »
I listen to Ben Shapiro too much.
Can a Rebbitzen be a Doctor?