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Jul 15, 2012
Non Life-Threatening Emergency
Illustration photo by Ypy31 Non-conventional halacha course with Rabbi Levi Wineberg from Johannesburg: Can you violate Shabbos to save a limb? Welcome to a non-conventional halacha course, launched by TheYeshiva.net, presenting for the first time the intricacies of Jewish law with its spiritual and psychological symbolisms in Chassidus.
Rabbi Levy Wineberg, author of Lessons in Tanya and an halachic scholar, is the Rosh Kolel of the Mizrachi Kolel and dean of Beis Mindrash LeHoraah, a rabbinical ordination institute in Johannesburg, South Africa.
"There is no real understanding of Judaism and of Chassidus without a mastery of Halacha. This new series will demonstrate how each law mirrors and reflects some of the richest and exciting ideas in Chassidus," says Rabbi YY Jacobson, dean of TheYeshiva.net.
The series is aired every Sunday evening on TheYeshiva.net and on COLlive.com.
This week: Fifth class on the laws of medicine on Shabbos. Can you violate Shabbos to save a limb?
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we could say it in short, I accept etc."ahavas yisroel", answer, the mitzva is "asei" to DO something about it. Like the story with the Tzemach Tzedek, who was preparing himself to begin shacharis, when a local butcher came to him to ask for a loan to buy animals to shecht, ( the Alter Rebbe used to appear to the Tzema tzedek to answer questions etc. at that time the Alter Rebbe had not appeared to the Tzemach Tzedek for some time, the Tzemach Tzedek tried with certain spiritual ways for the Alter Rebbe to appear to him but failed,)The Tzemach Tzedek said after davening, the man departed rather disapointed, but also happy. Then the Tzemach Tzedek realized, that after davening it would be too late for him to buy anything, so, the Tzemach Tzedek put his tallis down, RAN home, took more money then the butcher asked for, RAN to the market, found the butcher, gave him the money, and returned to shul, and as he was putting on his tallis, the Alter Rebbe appeared to him with a smile on his face. From here we learn, that to put oneself aside and run to do a Jew a favor, comes BEFORE davening.