Do Jews Believe in Alternative Medicine?

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so good morning welcome again so um let's start with the partial this week the par this week is called Mish last week we had the Ten Commandments where God said the Ten Commandments we did a class about the 63 Commandments this week the Torah begins where Hashem begins to instruct mosha with laws and so the name of the par is called MIM laws and it speaks about many many different laws it speaks about um the laws of um slavery we did a class not laws of um slavery we did a class not too long ago about slavery in Judaism um it then uh speaks about uh the prohibition of murder and the death penalty for murder um then it uh then it um speaks about um it tells the death penalty for hitting or cursing one's parents for kidnapping um then it speaks about damages um if someone injures another person um they have to pay uh various damages they have to pay for their loss of work for the injury itself their loss of work for the injury itself for their loss of work for um also for uh for their medical expenses we'll soon talk about that the importance of medical expenses um and uh as well as though not mentioned here they must pay for their pain and they must also pay for any embarrassment that was caused uh then um uh then I'm I'm not going to go through all them but just some of them then the Torah mentions that um if a person hits a pregnant woman and she loses her babies her baby um then they

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1. 0:02so good morning welcome again so um let's start with the partial this week the par…
2. 5:41of the Covenant between us and Hashem essentially that we will um that that he wrote…
3. 11:25today it's also important to remember that scientific medicine is not monol iic in other words…
4. 17:02medicine so before we look at the Jewish view of non-conventional medicine it's important to first…
5. 22:39even um herbs and teas uh that Chinese if they involve idolatrous practices either were grown…
6. 28:48not um and um regardless if it is unproven if it's non-conventional and unproven we are…
7. 34:35even violate a Torah prohibition other than idol worship in order to um use in order…
8. 40:16bites why it's in order to save a life now it doesn't work my mon points…
9. 45:56history so we have something that knows that it works much better um despite its downsides…
10. 51:39testing are blind tests meaning most testing includes a placebo and um often people will go…

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