When Rabbonim Were Doctors Is Being a Doctor a Mitzvah 06 07 2026

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

Okay. Um, so we've been talking about uh uh I guess doctor doctor things. Um, last week we focused on machineries and we focused on the element of the the um patient experience. We focused on if the if the patient has a right to get to get healed. What's like his hashkafic obligations relating to getting healed. But the part that we neglected to talk about and that really kind of goes like a hand and glove is what's the doctor's responsibility and obligation vis the responsibility and obligation vis the same hashkaf question meaning is a doctor totally free free range do whatever you want heal whoever you want however you want or does he also have to confront this uh like conundrum that made the person sick and why are you getting him why are you healing him so there's a a few um different angles that I want to go go down here today I'm not exactly sure how to start so we're going to we're going to figure it out together. Um I I have a safer over here an encyclopedia on medical issues in from a professor that rabbi doctor from a professor that rabbi doctor professor Aram Steyberg he's a big um he's part of this like there's a group in of of these uh very high ranking medical doctors I think in they call them professors um who are who are uh big also the profess rabbi doctor professor aam for Abraham's um Rabbi Ram Steinberg uh Mor Halpern there's a bunch of these different and he has a encyclopedia for Rafua and there's a like a little entry

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