Saving a Life on Shabbat: A Rabbi's Dog Bite Story

Anything, everything is allowed. If they need to go to the hospital, it's a mitzvah to drive them to the hospital on Shabbat to save their life. In fact, I had a situation years ago, maybe say about eight eight or nine years ago my next door neighbor at the time uh knocked on my door on on Friday night. Uh we actually had our my parents were visiting at the time. And uh see that it's him and his wife and their little baby uh and the baby's face is covered full of blood. And they said, "Well, you know, what are we going to do? The their dog bit their kid in the face." And said, "Rabbi, well, you know, what what do we do?" I said, "You have to take him to the hospital." Said, "No, but we're not sure if it's that bad." I said, "No, according to a halakha, a a dog bite could be poisonous if the if the dog has a rabies and therefore it's considered pikuach nefesh." And uh you have to take him to the hospital. And in fact I took him to the hospital. I drove the the mother and the and the boy to the hospital and the also got the medicine, uh you know, the pharmacy that they gave them and so on. But, the point is that it was a mitzvah to do that. Why? Cuz it was a life risk. It was a life risk.