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| # Some have a custom before taking medication to recite a yehi ratzon that all should be well.<ref>Refer to Shulchan Aruch 230:4, Magen Avraham 6, Mishnah Berurah 6. Some say saying the yihiy ratzon exempts one from the beracha that one would recite on a sweet medication (Refer to Ateres Shlomo 8:page 111, Nishmas Avraham 204:page 91). </ref> This [[tefilla]] may be recited on [[Shabbos]] and is not a concern of asking for personal needs on [[Shabbos]].<ref>Refer to Shar Ha’tzyion 230:8, Bakashas B’[[Shabbos]] page 27:footnote 15. See Betzel Hachuchma 5:41.</ref> | | # Some have a custom before taking medication to recite a yehi ratzon that all should be well.<ref>Refer to Shulchan Aruch 230:4, Magen Avraham 6, Mishnah Berurah 6. Some say saying the yihiy ratzon exempts one from the beracha that one would recite on a sweet medication (Refer to Ateres Shlomo 8:page 111, Nishmas Avraham 204:page 91). </ref> This [[tefilla]] may be recited on [[Shabbos]] and is not a concern of asking for personal needs on [[Shabbos]].<ref>Refer to Shar Ha’tzyion 230:8, Bakashas B’[[Shabbos]] page 27:footnote 15. See Betzel Hachuchma 5:41.</ref> |
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| ==Medicine after Candle Lighting before [[Kiddush]] ==
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| # One is permitted to drink water while taking a pill on [[Shabbos]] after candle lighting before [[Kiddush]].<ref>Refer to Minchas Yitzchok 8:18, Shevet Ha’kehusi 1:109, Nishmas [[Shabbos]] 2:9. </ref>
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| # One who needs to carry a pill on [[Shabbos]] in a place which does not have an eiruv should ask his Rav before doing so.<ref>Refer to Shemiras [[Shabbos]] K’hilchoso 40:7, Tzitz Eliezer 13:34. </ref>
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| # One is permitted to cut a tablet in half on [[Shabbos]], and there is no concern of "mechatech" (cutting) on [[Shabbos]].<ref>Shemiras [[Shabbos]] K’hilchoso 33:4, Shulchan Shlomo 314:13:3, Avnei Yushfei 4:58 quoting the opinion of Harav Elyashiv Shlita. Refer to ibid:footnote 30 for the reason. </ref>
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| ==Taking Medicine on Shabbos <ref> The same halacha applies to the first day of [[Yom Tov]] (Refer to Magen Avraham 532:2, Chai Adom 23:1, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 98:33, Mishnah Berurah 532:5, [[Yom Tov]] Shenei K’hilchoso 1:22, Nishmas Avraham 1:pages 275-276) and both days of [[Rosh Hashana]]h (Nishmas Avraham 1:600:1, see Shemiras Shabbos K’hilchoso 31:28, [[Yom Tov]] Shenei K’hilchoso 1:22:footnote 76, Shevet Ha’kehusi 1:156 ) </ref> == | |
| # There are different categories of people who may not feel well on [[Shabbos]]. We will only deal with the category of people who do not feel well on [[Shabbos]], but are not in danger (sakana). One who may have a headache or a runny nose (slight discomfort) is not permitted to take medication.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 328:1, see Nishmas Avraham 1:328:page 163. </ref>
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| # Chazal made a gezeirah that one is not allowed to take medications on [[Shabbos]] because one may come to grind it which is forbidden because of tochain.<ref>Refer to Mesechtas [[Shabbos]] 52b, Tur O.C. 328, Shulchan Aruch 328:1. In regard to taking mouthwash on [[Shabbos]] see Be’er Moshe 1:page 78, Rivevos Ephraim 2:page 192:23, 3:536:6, 4:97:5, 6:195, Nishmas [[Shabbos]] 5:318, Cheshev Ha’efod 2:59. Refer to Shevet Ha’kehusi 2:151 if one recited a beracha on medicine on [[Shabbos]] and then realized he is not allowed to take it. In regard to the idea that today may be different because we do not crush medicine in our homes but only in a pharmacy etc see Ketzos Ha’shulchan 134:badi 7:2, Tzitz Eliezer 8:15:15:1,4. </ref>
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| # Many times one is prescribed medication for more than a week's time for a slight ailment in which case he would have to take the medicine on [[Shabbos]] as well. The question is if one is permitted to take his medication even on [[Shabbos]]? The opinion of many poskim is that when one is prescribed medication for more than a week's time one is permitted to continue taking it on [[Shabbos]] as well, even if he would otherwise not be permitted to take medicine on [[Shabbos]].<ref>Refer to Shemiras [[Shabbos]] K’hilchoso 34:footnote 76, chelek 3:34:footnote 76, Da’as Chazzon Ish 7:19, Dinim V’hanhugos Chazzon Ish 15:1, Shulchan Shlomo 328:59, Be’er Moshe 1:33:8, 4:31, Avnei Yushfei 1:90:3, Rivevos Ephraim 3:227, 4:97:54, 5:202, Oz Nedberu 1:31:5, 4:24, Tzitz Eliezer 8:15:15:17:pages 147-148. Refer to Rivevos Ephraim 1:222:10 in regard to taking a suppository on [[Shabbos]]. </ref> Others are more lenient and permit one to take the medication on [[Shabbos]] even if he started taking the medication a day or two prior to [[Shabbos]].<ref>Refer to Kovetz Teshuvos (Harav Elyashiv Shlita) 1:40:2, Chut Shuni 4:page 153. </ref> The opinion of Harav Moshe Feinstein zt"l<ref>Igros Moshe O.C. 3:53. Refer to Da’as Torah 328:37 who is stringent. </ref> is to be stringent with this and he does not permit the taking of any medications in the aforementioned situation (unless one is in danger).
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| # The halacha is that a food which is not necessarily meant for [[refuah]], but is taken by healthy people may be consumed on [[Shabbos]] by a person who has a slight ailment.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 328:37, Aruch Ha’shulchan 48. Refer to Mishnah Berurah 117-118. See Ketzos Ha’shulchan 134:16:pages 31-32 in depth on what constitutes a health persons food. </ref> Many poskim are of the opinion that Tylenol® and other aspirin should not be taken even though healthy people may take them as well.<ref>Minchas Yitzchok 3:35:2, Be’er Moshe 1:33:5, 2:32, 6:39, Shraga Hameir 2:40, Refuas Yisroel page 16:footnote 42. Refer to Divrei Chachumim pages 137-138:389 who quotes a lenient opinion. </ref> However, if one is in great pain then taking them is permitted.<ref>Minchas Yitzchok ibid, Be’er Moshe ibid, Refuas Yisroel page 16:footnote 42. </ref>
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| # Some say that a multi-vitamin that one takes everyday is permitted since it is a food and not a [[refuah]].<ref>Opinion of Harav Yaakov Kamenetsky zt”l quoted in Divrei Chachumim page 137:footnote 389, Shemiras [[Shabbos]] K’hilchoso 34:footnote 85. In regard to regular vitamins see Divrei Chachumim pages 137-138, Igros Moshe O.C. 3:54, Nishmas Avraham 1:328:pages 212-213, Shulchan Shlomo 328:58, Tzitz Eliezer 14:50, Oz Nedberu 6:72, Be’er Moshe 1:33, Shalmei Yehuda 10:footnote 51. In regard to the [[muktzah]] status of pills and other medications see Minchas [[Shabbos]] 88:footnote 77, Har Tzvi tal harim tochain 2, Shalmei Yehuda 10:15:footnote 46, Zera Yaakov 13:page 153, Nachlas Yisroel pages 633-650 in depth, Shulchan Shlomo 318:7:2:page 298, Ohr Yisroel 6:pages 17-20, Aruch Ha’shulchan 308:59, Bais Avi 3:52, Avnei Yushfei 5:62. see also [[http://www.halachayomit.co.il/EnglishDefault.asp?HalachaID=3319 Halacha Yomit]] </ref>
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| # According to the opinion of some poskim, on [[Shabbos]] one should rip the wrapping around a medication by destroying it and making it useless.<ref>Nishmas Avraham 1:340:5:page 245. </ref>
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