- Shabbat and Holidays
- Pikuach Nefesh - Lifesaving
Piku’ach Nefesh on Shabbat
Question
Is saving a gentile on Shabbat considered a Shabbat desecration?
What is the reason?
Answer
Many rabbis wrote about this subject that in principle one is not allowed to save a gentile on Shabbat if it causes a Shabbat desecration.
However in our days, if a Jew Won't save a gentile, The gentile won't save a Jew.
So one can save a gentile in any case.
Rabbi Dov Li'or,
Rabbi of Kiryat Arba- Chevron

Mishmar Ezrachi on shabbat
Various Rabbis |

Radio Broadcasts in a State of Emergency
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 22 Tammuz 5766

Killing / Getting rid of bugs on Shabbat and Yomtov
Various Rabbis | Tammuz 18, 5770

Answer phone on Shabbat
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 22 Tevet 5763

Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.

Kissing a Mezuzah or Sefer
3 Tishrei 5763

Non-Kosher wine for cooking
7 Kislev 5763

What is happening to me?
4 Cheshvan 5763

I love pork
23 Cheshvan 5763
Praying Ma’ariv
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Iyyar 9, 5782
Tenach Melochim
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Iyyar 16, 5782
Is the Ketubah valid
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Iyyar 12, 5782
