Saving Lives, and Rules Relevant to Illness
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Cases of Danger
Mitzvah of Tzedakah
Redeeming Captives
A husband's duty to redeem his wife from captivity
Saving Lives of Recently Circumcised Infants on Shabbat
Saving Lives
In General: Yoma 82a; Ketuvot 19a; Kiddushin 8b
(Not) depending on a
Majority
: Ketuvot 15b
The imperative for saving lives, vs
prohibitions requiring martyrdom before transgression
: Yoma 82a, Pesachim 25a-b
Breaking the most lenient Transgression first: Yoma 83a-b
Fever as a life-threatening condition: Pesachim 25b
Pregnancy
as a life-threatening condition: Keritot 13a
Requirement to teach children survival skills: Kiddushin 29a, 30b
Learning Torah
, vs. saving lives: Megillah 16b
Saving one's self, by
approving of the act of someone who has murdered someone else
: Nedarim 22a
Consuming one's own water to save one's own life, but thereby
killing another person
: Bava Metzia 62a
Saving one's life by
using sorcery to charm creatures
: Keritot 3b
On Shabbat
Source for Breaking Shabbat for Saving Lives: Shabbat 132a
Saving Lives on Shabbat as a
Law Spoken to Moses at Sinai
: Shabbat 132a
Breaking Shabbat for someone once, to allow him to keep it many times in the future: Shabbat 151b, Yoma 85b
Procedure for Saving Lives on Shabbat: Yoma 84b
Responsibility for breaking Shabbat
, if one accidentally saves a life with the action: Menachot 64a
Aiding a person who has a non-life-threatening illness, via a Nochri: Shabbat 129a
Depending on a birthing mother's word to say she [doesn't] need something, at various stages of childbirth: Shabbat 128b-129a
Importance of Saving Lives on Shabbat: Yoma 85a-b, Ketuvot 5a
Of a
Kuti
: Yoma 85a
Helping a woman who is giving birth: Shabbat 128b, 129b; Eruvin 79b
Using
Altered Methods
in bringing items to aid a birthing woman: Shabbat 128b
Bringing a candle for a blind mother, so that she knows her assistants can see: Shabbat 128b
Aiding a newborn infant, including cutting the umbilical cord: Shabbat 128b, 129b
Aiding a person who undergoes blood-letting: Shabbat 129a-b; Eruvin 79b
If one breaks Shabbat to save someone, and then finds out his deed was unnecessary: Menachot 64a
Breaking one Forbidden Work where part of the profit isn't used, vs. 2 Forbidden Deeds where all of the profit is used: Menachot 64a-b
Holding public meetings on Shabbat for Saving Lives: Shabbat 150a
Overturning Rubble which is atop a Person on Shabbat
For Temporary Extension of the person's Life: Yoma 85a
Protecting a Dead Body: Yoma 85a
Where unsure if victim is alive: Yoma 83a, 85a
Where unsure of the victim's identity: Yoma 83a, 85a; Ketuvot 15b
Overturning Rubble on Yom Kippur: Yoma 82a
Ordinary Sickness
Using an entity which is prohibited under a
prohibition requiring martyrdom before transgression
, to help someone who is experiencing ordinary sickness: Pesachim 25a-b
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