Eating or Taking Medications on Fast Days
This article examines halachic guidance for fasting, eating, drinking, and taking medication on rabbinic fast days and Yom Kippur, including pregnancy, illness, nursing, and shiurim.
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Is There a Halachic Obligation to Live a Healthy Lifestyle?
This article examines the halachic duty to protect health and avoid danger, with attention to diet, obesity, alcohol, smoking, occupational risk, and recreation.
Physician Risk and the Halachic Duty to Heal
This article examines whether halacha obligates physicians to treat patients when doing so may place the physician at personal risk, especially in the context of infectious disease and reasonable protective measures.