Re: Eating without Eating (was Re: The title "rabbi")

Tim Meushaw <meushaw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2005-07-26, Larisa <purple_bovine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Lisa wrote:
> <snip>
> >> There are loopholes and workarounds for all sorts of things. But there
> >> are also boundaries that cannot be crossed. No loophole can make it
> >> permissible to eat on Yom Kippur, for instance. A sick person may be
> >> required to eat on Yom Kippur, but I suspect that's not the kind of
> >> thing you're looking for.
> >
> > True. I'm specifically looking for loopholes - for example, while it
> > is never permissible to eat on Yom Kippur, is it permissible to take in
> > nourishment through an intravenous tube? To inhale a mist that
> > contains a nutritious mixture that can be absorbed through the lungs?
> > To have a photosynthetic element implanted in your head so that your
> > skin generates nourishment for your blood cells when you expose your
> > head to sunlight? (I'm assuming that none of these would be acceptable,
> > but you get the idea)

> I've wondered about this as well in the past, and since you brought it
> up, I thought I'd spawn a new thread off of it and hope one of our
> experts can answer. Not that it'll help with this coming Tisha b'Av
> being too near to the present, but I can dream.

> Pig products can be, say, implanted or injected and we can benefit from
> them, because they're not being eaten and that seems to be the deciding
> factor. So, in Larisa's examples above, what constitutes eating and
> what doesn't? What WOULD be wrong with getting an IV of saline solution
> to keep hydrated? Aside from the problem of rolling the bottle on a pole
> to shul, that is. Or the other examples, of gaining nourishment in ways
> other than eating. For example, while my hunger is usually manageable,
> I tend to spend most of my time noticing how thirsty I am, plus I get
> dehydration headaches easily (I sometimes try Josh's technique of pulling
> on the scalp which works for a bit, but I'm always afraid of yanking hair
> out, and given family history, that's not a chance I'm willing to take).
> Just getting enough fluid through an IV to keep from having those
> effects would be helpful.

Actually one is allowed to get nourishment from an IV on Yom Kippur (or
from a suppository)


> I kind of presume that, even if humans could get nutrients in other
> ways, we'd still get hungry on Yom Kippur, since our bellys would still
> be empty and an empty belly is what triggers the brain to eat. Maybe
> someone could clarify that one, too. :-)

> Thanks,
> Tim

> --
> Timothy A. Meushaw
> meushaw@xxxxxxxxx


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