Rationalist Medical Halacha

The fifth principle of rationalist medical halacha is the Moral principle.  Similar to the fourth principle of Common-sense, this principle...

Our fourth principle is the common sense principle. According to this principle, if a contemporary halachic analysis of a particular medical...

There have been several comments regarding my previous post that I decided to devote an entire post in response.  See Michael's and Dani...

The third Rationalist principle of Medical Halacha is the Mixed Up Medical Principle.  The importance and relevance of any legal system can ...

The second principle of Rationalist Medical Halacha is the Historical Corruption Principle. It is not uncommon that when a posek ignores thi...

We are now ready to take on the topic of halachic determination of death according to the unique approach of our blog.  I will try to analyz...

I chose as my first topic of discussion the Halachic Definition of Death. My reason for choosing this, is because it was while reading an ar...