slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner) (10/23/85)
<> > ... Maybe if someone were going insane and had to be rushed to > a hospital for treatment we could desecrate the Sabbath ( I'm sure it has been > discussed somewhere already ). For whatever it's worth, there was a case at a girls school in Minn that a girl had a mental breakdown on Shabos. The Rov not only authorized two other students to go with her to the hospital (in a police car - the ill girl refused to go alone), but since the hospital was not in walking distance and was not in a good neighborhood, he also authorized them to ride back from the hospital (again with the police). -- Opinions expressed are public domain, and do not belong to Lotus Development Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner {genrad|ihnp4|ima}!wjh12!talcott!sesame!slerner {cbosgd|harvard}!talcott!sesame!slerner talcott!sesame!slerner@harvard.ARPA