jancsipista commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
i think whatever cures our ailment we should go for it idolatry or not.
View ArticleMistress of Health commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
On a positive note, proven alternative methods, such as Tehillim and changing one's name to confuse the Angel of Death, are still halakhically permissible.
View ArticleWestern Jew commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
Its not a medically scientific treatment, but its not idolatry. Good try rabbis, but at least you made a point of telling people that its wicked and foolish not to believe in science.
View ArticleAlthelion commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
Mistress: You mean I'm not really confusing the Angel of Death?!? Shit.
View Articleseymour commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
gee i wonder how many things we Jews do, originated from idolatry practices thousands of years ago.
View Articleyaakov commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
I totally agree with the rabbis. One should not use voodoo-medicine because it is clearly Avodah Zarah. Instead, one should spend his/her money wisely and go to their nearest Mekubal, have some blessed...
View ArticleNo Light commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
I'm with you Western Jew. If it works? It's called "medicine", if it's something that doesn't work and needs a quasimystical legend attached to it (homeopathy, acupuncture, TCM, reiki etc) it's...
View ArticleNigritude Ultramarine commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
thoroughly examining the nature of the treatments through a person with knowledge in Halacha and medicine.. Someone with a degree in medicine or physiology coupled with higher level semicha, I presume?
View ArticleStephen E Dalton commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
Alternative medicines are quackery. They mostly come from pagan religious practises and have no scientific basis. Take a look at the countries and cultures where this stuff comes from. They are from...
View ArticleA. Nuran commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
Most "alternative" and "holistic" medicine is delusion, quackery or wishful thinking. That doesn't make it idolatry. On the other hand, a lot of herbal medicine is very useful and effective. That's why...
View ArticleAlthelion commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
Korbendallas72 said: " I'm reasonably sure acupuncture is kosher." Uh, uh, not so fast. Were the needles dipped in a mikvah?
View ArticleWestern Jew commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
Look at it this way. The medical sciences are HEALING Sciences. If there is a treatment that is tried and prooven and works, we do endorse and use it in our physicians offices. If not, its a way that...
View Articleskepticalyid commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
There are certainly alternative health practices that arise in "pagan' countries and are proven to have benefits including: Acupuncture Tai Chi Yoga Contemplative meditation
View ArticleBas Melech commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
The rabbis should be more explicit in explaining what type of "alternative" medicine is avodah zarah. People will infer that most alternatives are forbidden and not go to legitimate healers. Many older...
View Articlerebeljew commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
Finally, Rabbis who are not afraid to take on the magic medicine machine. While I agree in halachic terms with some who have wanted to differentiate pseudo-scientific nonsense, e.g. homeopathy,...
View Articlerebeljew commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
What I said left one thing unclear. Idolatrous magic does not work as a cure either. It is a level in addition to being pseudo-scientific nonsense, not as opposed to it.
View Articlevisiting the sick commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
So, no more granola bars, because some neo-Pagan New Age practitioners invented them?
View Articlerebeljew commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
Clarifying to skepticalyid Acupuncture has never been shown in a full sized properly controlled study to do anything consistently or significantly to heal patients, despite 40 years of effort. There...
View Articleah-pee-chorus commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
check with a rabbi who is fluent in science, such as the torah cure for leprosy... "{4Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and...
View Articleskepticalyid commented on 'Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"'
rebeljew: 1. no one suggested it REPLACE current therapies however it can be as effect AS current therapies in appropriate application 2. You are generalizing too much about placebo/sham/acupuncture...
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