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Chayei Adam - K’lal 145 - Laws of Yom Kippur

]28[ Any person who smells food and turns pale is in danger if he doesn’t taste
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the food and we feed him. If however he didn’t turn pale, it is forbidden to feed
him even if he says he needs to eat. 57

]29[ An ill person, even if there is no danger to his life right now, but he says he
needs to eat [may eat], because if he doesn’t eat the illness will grow stronger and
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he will be in danger. Even if the doctors say he doesn’t need [to eat we listen to
the sick person and feed him, because a person’s heart knows his own pain, [and
this is true] even if the doctors say that this food will be detrimental to his
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health. If the patient says he doesn’t need [to eat] but there is an expert doctor,

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56. Chayei Adam’s note: At least, when might imply that we are only dealing with an
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a person smells food he should be careful to ill person whose life is in imminent danger,
spit out his saliva and not swallow it most rishonim (Rosh, Rambam, Tosfos)
because that can lead to danger as is in understand that one should feed an ill person
Kesubov 61b. if doctors say that fasting will make him sicker.
The gemara tells of a Roman man who
wanted to marry a certain [Jewish] woman and 59. Chayei Adam’s note: Even though,
he cut open delicious looking pomegranates above K’lal 68, siman 7, I wrote that if the
in front of her and wouldn’t give her a piece. doctor says that it will harm the patient, we
Saliva built up in her mouth and she became listen to the doctor, and the Magen
pale. When she agreed to marry him, he Avraham (328:6) brings that this is
repeated the process, but this time instructing regarding other medical matters where it
her to spit out the saliva and she was cured. isn't possible to say that the patient knows
his pain best and if so why should you rely
57. Magen Avraham, Elya Rabba, Shulchan on the patient over the doctor and even
Aruch HaRav. See however Mishna Berura who during the week we rely on the doctor.
writes that the Yeshuos Yaakov is unsure, and However, regarding eating, it is possible to
that the Chasam Sofer rules that although one say that the patient knows in his heart
may not feed him just because he asks, the what is best for him and we completely
person himself may take the food and eat it if ignore the doctor’s words that the food will
he feels endangered, despite the fact that harm him. Even with other treatments,
there was no change in his complexion. when the patient says he needs such and
such a medication and the doctor says he
58. Although one girsah of the gemara doesn’t but it won’t hurt him, and certainly

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