Medicine and Enteral Feeds: Does it Need to be Kosher?

This lecture will provide in-depth information on administering feeds and medications that may not be kosher.

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Course curriculum

    1. Video Course

    1. Evaluation

Course Details

  • $18.00
  • 1 hour of video content
  • Presented by Rabbi Hershel Schachter

About the course

1.0 contact hour (CE credit)
Expiration date: October 17, 2027

This lecture will provide in-depth information on administering feeds and medications that may not be kosher. 

  • Sanctity of regarding one’s health and saving a life (pikuach nefesh)

  • Non-kosher feeds and medications as they relate to infants and minors

  • Taking medications and vitamins that may not be kosher

  • Taking medications on Shabbos

  • Oral feeds versus tube feeding


Please note: This lecture will discuss and analyze high level rabbinic sources.


Learning Outcome
The learner will report this educational activity provides information that improves, supports, or causes a change in their practice.

This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

To obtain CE credits, learners must complete 90% of the lecture. Partial credit will not be granted. Learners will receive a CE certificate upon completion of the lecture and submission of a course evaluation form. 

Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this lecture. 

Conflict of Interest
The presenter declares no conflicts of interest.

Instructor

Rabbi Hershel Schachter

Rabbi Hershel Schachter, a noted Talmudic scholar, has had a distinguished career with Yeshiva University RIETS for nearly 60 years. He joined the faculty in 1967, at the age of 26, the youngest Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University. Since 1971, Rabbi Schachter has been Rosh Kollel in RIETS’ Marcos and Adina Katz Kollel (Institute for Advanced Research in Rabbinics) and also holds the institution’s Nathan and Vivian Fink Distinguished Professorial Chair in Talmud. Rabbi Schachter also serves as the senior rabbinic advisor (posek) for the Orthodox Union’s Kosher Certification Division. In addition to his teaching duties, Rabbi Schachter lectures, writes, and serves as a world renowned decisor of Jewish Law. A prolific author, he has written more than 100 articles, in Hebrew and English, for scholarly publications such as HaPardes, Hadarom, Beth Yitzchak, and Or Hamizrach. He has authored numerous seforim (books) including Eretz HaTzvi, B’ikvei HaTzon, Ginas Haegoz, and Nefesh HaRav, MiPninei HaRav and Divrei HaRav. Rabbi Schachter earned his B.A. from Yeshiva College, and his M.A. in Hebrew Literature from the Bernard Revel Graduate School in New York City.