R’ Rosenfeld – Sichos HaRan 50a – The Truth About Doctors

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Sichos HaRan 50 – The Truth About Doctors – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. (Lesson rw18a. Recorded in 1976.)

• 00:00 SICHAH 50.
• 09:57 The Talmud states: טוֹב שֶׁבָּרוֹפְאִים – לְגֵיהִנָּם – “The best of doctors goes to Gehinnam” (Kiddushin 82a). What does this mean?
• 11:35 The angel of death has assistants.
• 17:45 What should a patient do after the doctors have “given up” on him?
• 24:42 Chezkiyah Melech Yehudah hid the Sefer HaRefuos – “The Book of Cures” – and HaShem considered this good. Why?
• 26:21 וְרַפֹּ֥א יְרַפֵּֽא – “…and the doctor shall heal” (Shemos 21:19, Mishpatim).
• 29:02 Rabbi Elazar b’Rav Shimon Bar Yochai zal – the meaning of – “Cure us and we shall be cured.” A person needs to return to a doctor several times, but when HaShem cures a person, He does so at once.
• 36:49 Rav Avrohom (Kokhav-Lev) Sternhartz zal.
• 39:07 “HaShem is so great He can even heal through a doctor!” – Rabbi Eliyah Chaim Rosen zal.
• 39:18 Closing blessings.