Hachana L'Shabbos Shiur with Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger - Medicine on Shabbos

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

Okay, good evening. Another week in Kadusha Shabas. Thank you anytime for spreading the word of Shabases and to all of Okay, here's the question. Are you allowed to take medication on Chabas as a preemptive measure so you shouldn't get sick? Are you allowed to take medication? Are you allowed to take medication? You're fine now. Would you like one over here, too? Thank you. Here you go. Okay. He's going to he's go he's he's feeling lousy. He knows he's feeling that the flu is upon him, but he hasn't, excuse me, he doesn't have the flu yet, but it's it's happening. it's it's happening. In the meantime, he has not yet been. Can you already start taking the medication? This needs a little bit of explanation. Okay, let's take about three or four minutes to give you some of the background. First of all, as to the and as well as to the lumbus. Okay. What is the regarding medication? Are you allowed to take medicine on shabas? If you if you're not, why not? shabas? If you if you're not, why not? Is it the arisa biblical or don is as follows. There's nothing wrong in the to take any medication. The prohibition is and the reason what's wrong with medication? Well, how do they make medicine? They make medicine usually by crushing things. If you notice on a pharmacy, what's that symbol that they always have in front of a pharmacy, right? >> Right. The mortar and the pestle, right? Because that's the way they would they

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1. 0:00Okay, good evening. Another week in Kadusha Shabas. Thank you anytime for spreading the word of…
2. 3:04months, in two years, I couldn't care when, but you might run out of the medicine…
3. 6:17but it but they still can't function like a regular like their regular self they're also…
4. 9:25at this point in time he's only a so if he's only a me then how…
5. 13:01ask a to bring it to him and the would I I think based on the…
6. 16:10You would not be able to allow a person to take the medication. That's what's mat…
7. 19:16the fire for you. That certainly beer. You couldn't tell a guy to do that. But…
8. 22:57take antibiotics and you have to start the day beforehand and one day before five days…
9. 26:21with a piece from Pinkis. It's the last piece in this booklet over here which talks…
10. 29:29Shalom. If you bring Hashem's into the world, then you're bringing shalom into the world. Shabbat…

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