Vaccine Panel (Including Rav Asher Weiss): Bridging Halacha, Expertise & Policy for Public Health

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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.

Good afternoon. My name is Manasha Miller, deputy mayor of Lakewood Township and I'll be the moderator of today's session. Today's session is called vaccines discussions, bringing hal bridging hala expertise and policy for public health. With vaccines once again in the forefront of the media and the Senate confirmation of RFK, this is likely to be one of the hottest topics at this year's conference. K organization has gone far and wide to put together a group of panelists. We'll be discussing this year's this topic. First and foremost, we have Harav Ashwita who's among the most renowned and respected international halak authorities in both medical science and Torah halaka. Rabbi Weiss has written numerous books invarim under the name of Mhasasher. He is also the rush kola of a prestigious colim as well as the chief rabbi of the shared sadic hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. Next up we have Dr. Paul Afett, MD. Dr. Profett is director of vaccine education center and professor of pediatrics in division of infectuous disease at children's hospital of Philadelphia otherwise known as chop. Dr. Afford has written numerous medical papers a lot of them discussing the roto virus and has actually co-invented the vaccine for the roto virus which is recommended for infants by the CDC and for that Dr. Afett has received numerous awards. Next up we have Rabbi Swillie Frerieded. Raisy feed is the executive director of High Lifeline New Jersey and Pennsylvania as well as a national and international speaker on families with terminal illness crisis and cancer. He's also known in the hallways of CHOP and is sought after speaker on those topics. Last but not least, we have doc we have uh Jeff who's an attorney for the in the medical field and he will be discussing also questions that come up with regard to vaccination. We had initially had

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1. 0:05Good afternoon. My name is Manasha Miller, deputy mayor of Lakewood Township and I'll be the…
2. 5:20that people died right after taking their vaccine and some argue you that this vaccine might…
3. 10:32If it is true that vaccines might be detrimental to your health and I once again…
4. 15:42actually measles virus that was causing it. He said it was just a defective vaccine virus…
5. 20:49was speaking what's the RV's um who the RV was with um always introduces DV from…
6. 25:59feel that immunizations are ora from a from a point of view? The second question is…
7. 31:07Great people sometimes have big mistakes. And in Judaism, we know this. No one is perfect.…
8. 36:26bases for bases for the obligation to heal? So let me give a short introduction to…
9. 41:40can understand the reality that we're not claiming that it never can happen but that it's…
10. 46:53people that are vaccinated in a society give protection to the entire society. So if everyone…

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