An exploration of Jewish law in the context of medical history and rabbinic literature.
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much appreciated as as well and as always any comments questions or feedback please email me sparm chatter atgmailcom hi everyone welcome to another edition of the Swarm chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined by Rabbi Edward reichman MD who is a professor of emergency medical of emergency medicine and professor of bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine um and he's an attending physician in emergency medicine at a matur medical center and he recently was appointed the rabbi Isaac and Bella tendler chair in Jewish Medical ethics tendler chair in Jewish Medical ethics at Yu and we will be discussing his new book which is called the anatomy of Jewish law a fresh dissection of the relationship between medicine medical history and Rabbi literature which is published or co-published by Magid which is coren Publishers uess and yuess so thank youman for joining me my absolute pleasure I an avid listener of storm chatter and it is a pleasure and to join you okay so let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself listeners a little bit about yourself and your background I come from uh Wisconsin originally my father El shal was a rabbi in Wisconsin for many years and that's where I grew up I went to a high school there was no high school to go to at that time uh when I was growing up Yeshiva high school so I went to skoki Yeshiva in Chicago uh for high school went to yiva cotel After High School uh then I went to Yeshiva University graduated Yi University then went on to
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- 1:01much appreciated as as well and as always any comments questions or feedback please email me…
- 6:42looking for uh those books and there are many extraordinary books and many many people contributing…
- 12:48with the shun ofb alabi mayor alabi so uh to give you an idea by the…
- 19:03one is is the very the very uh detailing of the anatomy of the human body…
- 25:13uh approach is relevant for uh you know the the actual substance of the text but…
- 31:20conception of conception um one of the really fertile areas of uh um of of uh…
- 36:55androgenous or tumtum um so so that notion you know did not exist that notion was…
- 43:07only a transplantation of a sliver of ovary it wasn't a transplantation of the entire ovary…
- 49:16Earth no matter how much heat you apply fascinating you you mentioned in hero story gave…
- 55:27because of vaccination vaccination in essence eradicated small poox uh off the face of the Earth…
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