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the Torah gives a woman seven days of ritual purity, for recovery after of the Torah, because the Torah comes to teach us that causing one’s 10
she has ceased bleeding, so too for the baby boy. child to transgress Shabbos is a serious prohibition which is compared
The Aruch L’ner in Yevamos (71b, s.v. b’Gemara be’inan) writes that to idolatry. According to this, it is forbidden for a father to instruct
according to one opinion, the seven days that we wait for a baby after his young son to do prohibited acts on Shabbos even if it is to save an
its temperature has receded are not because of concern for danger, organ or limb. According to the other Acharonim, such as the Melo
but because it is so decreed by the Torah. Therefore, even if we accept Haro’im and the Imrei Binah (cited in Responsa Achiezer, ibid) who
the words of the physicians that there is no danger, nevertheless, one answer the Mutzal Me’eish in other ways, it is likely that the prohibi-
waits seven days because of the decree of the Torah. tion of “your son” is not as stringent as idolatry. This requires further
The Sefer Yad David (by the Av Beis Din of Karlin, cited in S’dei study.
Chemed, Kuntres Hametzitzah) deals with the issue of physicians The Chochmas Shlomo (#228 on #46) was asked about someone
who, based on their knowledge and experience, contradict our Sages. who was stricken with partial blindness. The doctors gave up on find-
He explains that there are things that the Sages accepted as “halacha ing a cure for him. Then he heard about a gentile hospital willing to
given to Moshe at Sinai,” and remedies that they discovered from accept him and to find him a remedy that would prevent him from
“the secrets of Hashem are with those who fear Him.” These types becoming completely blind, on condition that he eat their treif food.
of things will never change, regardless of what the physicians say. Was he permitted to go to this hospital? He ruled that only the eye
However, there are remedies that became known to the Sages of the that has fallen out is considered a danger to life. Blindness is consid-
Talmud from medical practitioners, such as Rav Yochanan’s remedy ered a danger only to a specific organ, and it is prohibited to violate
for the illness tsafdina, which he learned from a Roman matron, as Torah prohibitions for an organ in danger. It thus seems that the
explained in Tractate Yoma (84a). This type of thing may be subject Chochmas Shlomo does not agree with the views of the Pri Megadim
to change over time. and Eglei Tal because, according to them, specifically Shabbos is not
The Sefer Nishmas Chaim (Feinsilver, #34) deals with the story set aside because of danger to an organ, but not so other prohibitions.
of a baby who fell from the hands of the kvatter as he was taking If so, according to them it would be permissible to eat non-kosher
him to be circumcised. There was a possibility that the baby had food in order to save an organ or limb.
internal wounds, because the kvatter was very tall. He ruled that it
is forbidden to circumcise the baby until the physicians declare him 1 SuMMaRy and Conclusion
to be healthy. Then he considered whether it was permissible to rely
on the physicians in this matter. According to Tosfos (in Chullin 42a, If someone’s finger was cut off his hand, it is probably permissible to
s.v. ve’amar) treifos in animals and humans are the same, and since it reattach it on Shabbos, because the person is in danger. Due to the
is “halacha given to Moshe at Sinai” that an animal that has fallen re- danger to an organ- the finger itself- the Rabbinic rule of violating
quires examination to see if there is any damage to its internal organs, the least severe prohibition is set aside, and one can save him from
or one must see the animal walking on its feet, how is it possible to the danger, even by having to violate numerous prohibitions while
circumcise a baby before it walks on its legs? reattaching the finger. This requires further study.
We must point out that the Divrei Malkiel (Vol. 2 #131) says that
it is forbidden to extract a drop of blood of circumcision from a baby
who was born circumcised if he has pain in his eyes. The main danger

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