Parshas Shemos: A Husband in the Delivery Room

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

and birthing coaches and so forth um it's interesting that uh Christian thought used to be that if a woman would have assistance uh giving birth it was actually considered heretical because the Bible says it's supposed to hurt so to have any kind of Midwife or any kind of Assistance or any tool or device or procedure that would make make it easy was considered against the Bible and in fact um Lord Emanuel saxs writes in his book a Jewish Medical ethics that in France there was a woman who uh used uh used um a midwife and the woman who was pregnant the woman who delivered and the Midwife they were both executed they were both executed why it's against the Bible against the Bible so you would think that that was you know 500 years ago well not until 19 19 49 in 1949 the church reversed its opinion about using anesthesia until 1949 it was considered Sac religious to use anesthesia was consider 1949 the church in one of their regular reversals they allowed the use of anesthesia okay and um very interesting in 19 in the 50s there's a doctor named doctor lamaz he travels to the Soviet Union and he uh learns the different breathing techniques that are known as Lamas right so let's start off by seeing what Raa has to say about Lamas okay what this has to do with anything you know I'm not sure but uh is the breathing exercise I'll tell you look at number 18 we yeah we'll start um we'll start with the endha writes look at number 18 look at number 18 this is uh the topic today is going to be about when a woman becomes Aid when uh during child birth but Ra was asked

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1. 0:31and birthing coaches and so forth um it's interesting that uh Christian thought used to be…
2. 6:17during child birth is he permitted to offer moral support hold her hand well hold her…
3. 12:00right or you could say no you know if I'm walking you with you on the…
4. 17:41in number eight she's sitting on the birthing stool she gets up onto that thing right…
5. 23:22stool and then she says never mind and she gets up he says she's an we…
6. 29:46not aita now how do we pasin look at number 12 this from the nishas abam…
7. 35:33it so the said okay that's a good point it's a good point we do find…
8. 41:15with it and that's why thein that even though the husband is a doctor and he's…
9. 46:59it's not then if it's considered professional you know if she says okay you know either…
10. 52:40there but you can't look at the baby coming out you know how to look at…

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