Saving Lives, and Rules Relevant to Illness

Cases of Danger

Mitzvah of Tzedakah

Redeeming Captives

A husband's duty to redeem his wife from captivity

Saving Lives of Recently Circumcised Infants on Shabbat

In General: Yoma 82a; Ketuvot 19a; Kiddushin 8b

(Not) depending on a Majority: Ketuvot 15b

The imperative for saving lives, vs prohibitions requiring martyrdom before transgression: Yoma 82a, Pesachim 25a-b

Breaking the most lenient Transgression first: Yoma 83a-b

Fever as a life-threatening condition: Pesachim 25b

Pregnancy as a life-threatening condition: Keritot 13a

Requirement to teach children survival skills: Kiddushin 29a, 30b

Learning Torah, vs. saving lives: Megillah 16b

Saving one's self, by approving of the act of someone who has murdered someone else: Nedarim 22a

Consuming one's own water to save one's own life, but thereby killing another person: Bava Metzia 62a

Saving one's life by using sorcery to charm creatures: Keritot 3b

Source for Breaking Shabbat for Saving Lives: Shabbat 132a

Saving Lives on Shabbat as a Law Spoken to Moses at Sinai: Shabbat 132a

Breaking Shabbat for someone once, to allow him to keep it many times in the future: Shabbat 151b, Yoma 85b

Procedure for Saving Lives on Shabbat: Yoma 84b

Responsibility for breaking Shabbat, if one accidentally saves a life with the action: Menachot 64a

Aiding a person who has a non-life-threatening illness, via a Nochri: Shabbat 129a

Depending on a birthing mother's word to say she [doesn't] need something, at various stages of childbirth: Shabbat 128b-129a

Importance of Saving Lives on Shabbat: Yoma 85a-b, Ketuvot 5a

Of a Kuti: Yoma 85a

Helping a woman who is giving birth: Shabbat 128b, 129b; Eruvin 79b

Using Altered Methods in bringing items to aid a birthing woman: Shabbat 128b

Bringing a candle for a blind mother, so that she knows her assistants can see: Shabbat 128b

Aiding a newborn infant, including cutting the umbilical cord: Shabbat 128b, 129b

Aiding a person who undergoes blood-letting: Shabbat 129a-b; Eruvin 79b

If one breaks Shabbat to save someone, and then finds out his deed was unnecessary: Menachot 64a

Breaking one Forbidden Work where part of the profit isn't used, vs. 2 Forbidden Deeds where all of the profit is used: Menachot 64a-b

Holding public meetings on Shabbat for Saving Lives: Shabbat 150a

For Temporary Extension of the person's Life: Yoma 85a

Protecting a Dead Body: Yoma 85a

Where unsure if victim is alive: Yoma 83a, 85a

Where unsure of the victim's identity: Yoma 83a, 85a; Ketuvot 15b

Overturning Rubble on Yom Kippur: Yoma 82a

Using an entity which is prohibited under a prohibition requiring martyrdom before transgression, to help someone who is experiencing ordinary sickness: Pesachim 25a-b



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