In a recent conversation with a Jewish OBGYN following the unsettling events of October 7th, he reported a surge in couples inquiring about fertility treatments and assistive reproductive technologies. It is remarkable that when engulfed in calamity, the Jewish spirit instinctively seeks out light to dispel darkness and build new life.

The famous question that has been asked for centuries is how can we heal a patient? G-d decreed that they should become ill, so what gives a physician the right to heal?

How should the medical team, a sick person, or a woman taking care of her children daven Mussaf without a minyan on Rosh Hashana?