The next category that I want to discuss is choleh sh’ayn bo sakanah, a sick person with a non-life-threatening illness. There are two types of people that are considered choleh sh’ayn bo sakanah. The first is a person who has an illness that affects the entire body. An example of this would be someone with a moderate/severe flu or the chickenpox. The second is someone who has a localized ailment, but it is so strong that he cannot function and must lie in bed. This would include someone with a very painful headache (even if it is not a migraine) or an asthma attack that makes someone weak due to lack of oxygen (even if it non-life-threatening).
The first leniency for such a person is in the area of amira l’akum, telling a non-Jew. For such a sick person, all authorities agree that one may ask a non-Jew to violate any prohibition, even a Biblical one, to provide care for the sick person. Next week, I will discuss another major leniency.
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