Episodes
Friday Feb 07, 2020
2/8/20 - Shiur 258 - Alternative Medicine: Halacha and Hashkafa
Friday Feb 07, 2020
Friday Feb 07, 2020
Are different types of alternative medicines permitted in halacha? Are holistic approaches more "Jewish"? Are hospital births safer or more dangerous than non-hospital births? And much more...
*** Guest Hosted by Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer - Rav, Dayan, and Mechaber Seforim, Yerushalayim ***
with Rabbi Shabtai Rappaport, Head of Beis Midrash at Bar-Ilan, Editor of several volumes of Iggros Moshe and Dibros Moshe - 10:00
with With Yael Tusk, M.Sc., Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture practitioner in Yerushalayim, Researcher & Author of Health: A Natural Approach - 45:30
with Judy Ribner, Certified Nurse Midwife, Doctor of Nursing candidate at NYU (Susan Kumm Leddy scholar) - 1:13:00
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There are just too many stupid, ignorant and delusional things spewing out of her mouth that I am getting a headache.
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Being old does not in any way prove anything except that Chinese medicine has been wrong for a long time.
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Just because there are flawed studies, it doesn't follow that all of them are. She, by her own admission, is ignorant of science and so what chutzpah to then proceed to criticize scientific research.
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Mrs. Tusk, there are two kinds of medicine -- Alternative and medicine that actually works.
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Will someone remind me why I chose my daughter's name for my nickname? Changed to "Peleg".
Monday Feb 10, 2020
The placebo effect is due to the psychological effects of suggestion, it is a known and quantifiable effect.
Monday Feb 10, 2020
I wonder how Rabbi Rapport would respond to this: If my car broke down or my sink sprung a leak, should we ask our Rav for help fixing it, would our Rav consult the writings of the chachamim to find an answer? If not, then why would we expect to get good health advice from them?
Monday Feb 10, 2020
It is quite clear and obvious that Rabbi Rapport doesn't know the difference between logic and knowledge. 1000 years ago, magnetism was a mystery but now we very well know where it comes from, what causes it. Until we understood what an atom is and what a dipole is, you can't understand magnets and magnetism. It has been many times quoted, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Monday Feb 10, 2020
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