The Role of a Jewish Physician in End of Life Care | A Shiur by Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a

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

so it's a privilege for me first of all to be with all of you it's always so simple for me to share a podium and just to see my friend rave fold we have so much in common we do so much together and i wish you many many more wonderful years of good health keep up your holy work it's a privilege for me to share any project with my dear and recent friends not many years rabbit brooker dr kalish and my precious talmud rami sprung heading the basementish together to rabbi fold so the issues we came to discuss today are devorim my audience today are medical doctors and medical students recently a person approached me in the street is it true that i'm asking that if you're not learning title all day you should be a doctor i laughed and i said no that's not upsuck if sake would be a ridiculous suck but i do agree to say if you're not teaching taita the second best job you could ever have is being adapted because the bottom and doctors serve life is a mission we're here to serve so the body tends to the nephesh to the meshuma to the spirit doctors are here to preserve life and we share a mission serving islam so it's a covenant a privilege to address such a big crowd of doctors present and future so we're dealing with the greatest myths from the title which is means one would assume that because nephesh reigns supreme and in all circumstances we need to prolong and preserve life as a general statement that is true but in the details not always and sometimes a patient or even a family of a patient to have the privilege to choose

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1. 0:00so it's a privilege for me first of all to be with all of you it's…
2. 5:10we find the definition of ghazal that means life literally translated loosely demonstrated it is life…
3. 10:52because surgery was not really very developed in those days going back almost 350 years but…
4. 16:30we are familiar with many progressive diseases they are progressive no way back they're relentless but…
5. 22:20the doctors only know what they see but they don't know what's under your skin let…
6. 28:09non-jewish family the father was terminally ill terribly ill he was dying the family to all…
7. 33:49you never sedate a person to end his life that is something we don't do but…
8. 39:25physicians about gender change and transgenders so in america especially you know if a child comes…
9. 45:04they know something about the options they could treat or not treat so i think you…
10. 50:52is just easing his pain and it's not going to go on forever so i think…

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