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duty. When preparing to treat a patient with a contagious disease, the physician should pray to G-d for special guidance and protection since he is endangering his own life. A military physician is permitted to render medical care to a wounded soldier in a combat zone although he is endangering his own life. This applies even if it is doubtful whether the wounded soldier will live, die, or be killed. Similarly, another soldier is allowed to place his own life in danger in order to rescue a wounded comrade from the combat zone.
221:. Many doctors prayed at the synagogue and brought their questions to the rabbi. Waldenberg began to answer their questions about Jewish law and its application to medical ethics, and would come to teach a weekly medical ethics class to the hospital's doctors and nurses. He was close to Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Hai Uziel, and was the head of the Shaarei Zion Yeshiva, founded by him.
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He granted workers the right to strike when employers have violated a workplace condition that has become "the custom of the land." Most legal authorities required workers to bring their employer to a beit din (religious court) before resorting to a strike. "In situations such as these, in which the
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worker is absolutely certain that the employer has transgressed and violated a condition that has been established as the custom of the land, the worker may take the law into his own hands by levying the fine that the appointed communal leaders have deemed appropriate for a situation such as this."
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In principle, a person may not place himself in possibly life-threatening danger in order to save his neighbor's life... It is permitted for a physician to assume the risk of treating patients with any type of contagious disease. Indeed, he is credited with the fulfillment of an important religious
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to be permissible in the case of a baby born androgynous where one set of organs were more developed. After careful halachic and medical consideration, Waldenberg ruled that a transsexual woman following sex reassignment surgery (SRS) is a halachic woman. He wrote, "The external anatomy which is
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greater than the one that arises in connection with ensuring that a deaf person does not suffer embarrassment because of being unable to hear what people say to him. It is difficult to imagine the magnitude of the embarrassment and unpleasantness caused him when he comes among people, in the
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Waldenberg forbade performing elective surgery on someone who is neither sick nor in pain, such as cosmetic surgery. He argues that such activities are outside the boundaries of the physician's mandate to heal. Notably, Rabbi
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strongly disagreed on this. (see
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is an encyclopedic treatise on halachic questions, viewed as one of the great achievements of halachic scholarship of the 20th century. Though he wrote numerous books and articles in all fields of
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greater than in connection with the matters discussed earlier, to which must be added his distress at forgoing public worship and being unable to hear the Torah reading and the responses to
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visible is what determines the halakha" in the present tense. Nonetheless, he affirmed the universal position in
Orthodox Judaism that voluntary SRS is prohibited by Halacha.
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synagogue, and he is isolated, unable to hear what is going on, unable to respond to those who ask him a question. This produces a concern about
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Jewish law, the State of Israel and the Israel
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231:In 1976, Waldenberg was awarded the
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