Jews; Movers Of Medical Mountains - The Parshah On Fire - V'eschanan

You can make a pretty strong case that no PK in the entire Tyra has played a larger role in advancing the overall physical welfare of humanity than the P of the P that tells us how we should be extremely careful with our health and it's the directive and mandate for us to cherish our bodies and to treat it with utmost respect. Not because the body is our edifice and we bow down to it in servitude, but because the body clothe the soul and without it the soul would cease to exist on earth. That's why the puss says it doesn't say for the reason we're guarding our bodies is because it houses our soul. Our extreme devotion to Hashem and service to him propels our nation to protect the soul's outer casing to such an unbelievable extent that we as a people have moved medical mountains in order to do so. Because of this otherwise seemingly insignificant puk, our little nation relative to its size has contributed more to the safeguarding and health of the human body than almost every other nation in the world combined. Because of this Pik our sages throughout the millennia have put tremendous emphasis on health and preserving it and the world at large knew it. Over 10 popes had Jewish doctors. The Rambam was the personal doctor to Sultan Saladine. Sulaman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire had a personal Jewish doctor as did Elizabeth the 1st of England and Louis the 14th of France and Katherine the Great of Russia and even the notorious and vicious anti-semites Ferdinan and Isabella of Spain. In the year 1,500, half of the doctors in Europe were Jewish. In 1930, 50% of the doctors in Berlin were Jewish. The percentage of doctors that were Jewish at that time stood at 60% in Vienna, 63% in Budapest, 66% in Warsaw, 70% in Leviv, 74% in Vilna, 83% in Luds, which was Poland's second largest city. This was in spite of facing some of the harshest and most restrictive anti-semitic laws in our nation's history. It didn't deter us from practicing in the medical field. No, not at all. For we have a soul to protect and we will do whatever it takes to protect it. the list of Jewish people with a fire in their souls who sought out ways to ensure the soul's armor would live on and a long live a long one is a long list and relative to its size almost supernaturally so the amount that our little nation contributed is nothing short of a miracle here's just some of that list Waxman a Jewish microbiologist from Russia was considered the father of antibiotics as he was the one who discovered had properly used them basil Hershkitz invented the fiber optic endoscope. Paul Zaul pioneered the pacemaker and defiill. Some other Jews who made revolutionary medical contributions to society were Marshall Nuremberg who cracked the genetic code or what about Rosalyn Franklin who discovered the structure of DNA or Rosalyn Yala who developed the process for safe blood transfusions. Oh, what about Jonas Song who developed a cure for polio or Paul Paul Erlic who invented something like chemotherapy or Michael Gotautle who invented and developed the effective treatment of AIDS. The list goes on and on. The deadly typhus disease was eradicated in great measure by the work of Lewig Fleck. Arnold Michael and Cella and Dvoritalbal invented Copicone, a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis. Musa Udema from Iran discovered the medicine for treating Parkinson's. Ernest of Germany discovered the pharmaceutical use of penicellin. Bacteriologist Walmir Hfkin of Russia found the cure to calera. Microbiologist Irvin Milman and geneticist Barak Blumbberg discovered the cure to hepatitis. Electroloptical engineer Gabriel Idan invented the very first pill camera. Theorratic surgeon Henry Heimlck invented what is now called the Heimlck maneuver, saving hundreds of thousands of people yearly from choking. Charles Kelman discovered cataract surgery. A cardiovascular surgeon by the name of Albert Sar invented the very first artificial heart valves. Biotechnologist Tal Devir invented the world's first 3D printed heart made entirely from actual human cells. Abel Wman pioneered the concept of clean chlorinated drinking water saving millions of lives that would have otherwise been lost due to to contaminated water without the work of Gertude Elone in the discovery of imun im imu immunosuppressants and various other drugs organ transplants would have never been possible. Carl Lanstein discovered the blood group system essentially vital for safe blood transfuses. Raymond Damnian invented the very first MRI scanner, a piece of medical technology that has become indispensable in hospitals around the world. Jews discovered the cure to tuberculosis and leukemia and lymphoma and syphilis. Jews were responsible for major medical organizations and institutions around the world. One of the first nursing organizations in Russia was started by Jews. Lilian Wall started the nurses of nurse organization of America. Henrietta Soul founded the world famous hada network. Tremendous contributions to the world of psychiatric and psychological health were made by Jews as well. Some famous ones are Alfred Adler, Sig S Sigman Freed, Eric Erikson, Victor Frankle, Abraham Moslo. Massive hospital chains were built all over the world bearing the name of the Jews that inspired them attesting to the world's respect for their medical knowledge and efforts. A few examples are Mymones Medical Center, Monteur Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, Albert Einstein Medical Center, the Jewish Hospital in London, the Jewish Hospital of Belgium, the Jewish Hospital of Vienna, the Albert Einstein Hospital in Brazil, the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. Our burning desire for health isn't limited only to help our fellow Jews, but it spread to the world at large. Bernard Kushner from France, whose own parents were killed in the Holocaust, started what has become one of the world's largest medical volunteer organizations, Doctors Without Borders. The Jewish cardiac surgeon, Amram Cohen, started an organization called Save a Child's Heart, which offers free heart surgeries to children in over 60 countries. During the Syrian civil war, Jews set up several hospitals to treat wounded Syrian troops, despite the fact that Syria is not a friend of Israel by any standards. In March of 2022, Jews from Israel were the very first to set up a hospital on Ukrainian soil. During the Russian invasion, Jewish immunologists Drew Weissman and Albert Burla, a chairman and CEO of Fizer, led the team that discovered the mRNA platform, which led the way to the first effective COVID vaccine. The chief medical officer at Fizer is a Jew by the name of Michael Dolston. The chief medical officer of Maderna is Talzax. The chief medical officer of Johnson and Johnson is Joanne Wildstriker. The current chief medical scientist of Russia's Galaya Institute is a Jew by the name of Anatoli Alstin and the director is Alexander Ginsburg. The list goes on and on. The Jew for thousands of years cherished his body not because it was an end unto itself but because it contained within it the most powerful force on the planet. The Jewish soul part of the reason why Jews don't have tattoos is because tattoos is an indicator of the way one views the body. If the body is one's place of pleasure, then as a form of worship to the body, masqueraded as individualism and self-expression, one will paint and pierce and ink his body as a beautifification of that palace. But if the body is merely the outer shell of the soul, one would never dream of placing a tattoo on it. It's for the same reason that the Tyra has an extreme aversion to cremation. The moment a non-Jew dies, his body, the palace that gave him his pleasure in life, becomes worthless and therefore might as well be burnt. When a Jew dies, the holy body that enabled his soul to be uplifted and attached to Hashem must be treated with respect and dignity and buried untouched. A Jew, religious or not, is well aware of the precious cargo his body is carrying. the small piece of heaven that is hidden underneath that spark of the divine the body is there to protect. We will do whatever it takes to ensure that the soul will live on if it means discovering the most remarkable medical breakthroughs in history. We are ready to take it on. Our souls are simply too precious not to.