Q: How much credence should a Torah Jew give to current medical theories in the field of health and proper nutrition?
Tag: Health
Rav Avigdor Miller on Jelly Doughnuts
Q: Is there anything wrong with eating candies, cakes, doughnuts and things like that?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Well Visits
Q: If a man is completely healthy as far as he knows, but he goes to a doctor for a complete checkup and x-rays, is that a chisaron in his bitachon?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Gemara-Healing
Q: The Gemara says, “Chash bi’chol gufo ya’asok ba’torah” (Eiruvin 54a). If you are sick, then you should learn Torah in order to heal. Would the Rav say that one can overlook this chazal and instead go to sleep in order to get better?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Cancer Ward – Looking In and Looking Out (June 1999)
Q: What is the cause of cancer?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Summer Vacations
Q: Is it wrong to take one’s family on summer vacation?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Smoking
Q: The Rav has spoken forcefully about the issur of smoking. If you are right, why don’t we find the Gedolim issuing an issur for Yeshiva bochurim to smoke?