Yom Kippur
Fasting on Yom Kippur – Part 6: When the Low Has Already Happened
It is the hardest moment of the fast. What to do the second it happens, how much to take, and why there is nothing left to weigh.
Halacha
Yom Kippur
Eating on Yom Kippur: How Much, and How Often
While we all wish to start and finish a successful fast, not everyone can have one. For them, a chart and a plan.
Fasting
Fasting on Yom Kippur — Part 3: Why Fasting Is Risky for Someone With Type 1 Diabetes
Blood sugar is the part we have tools for. The real danger is a rise in acid that no home device can measure — and a number nobody can give you.
Exercise
Exercise on Shabbos – A Mitzvah
A reader asks whether one may exercise on Shabbos to bring high numbers into range – and whether an unplugged machine is allowed. The Rav's answer was short and striking.
Secrecy
Feedback Forum — The Letters That Got Left Out
Three letters set aside while the series ran. A woman diagnosed in 1998 proposes where the secrecy came from — and I offer a theory of my own. A reader asks how any of this reaches people without email. And a woman told on for using a phone while standing shul security.
Halacha
A Doctor, a Rav, and a Rule I'm Bending
Why FWD doesn't usually publish halachic back-and-forth — and why I'm making an exception for a rare article on diabetes management and Shabbos, written by an endocrinologist we've known for decades together with a rav. Reprinted with permission.
Pumps
Pump Failure: Are You Prepared?
A reader's pump failed on Shabbos morning — here's what they did, and what it teaches about being prepared. With Rabbi Meisels' thoughts on halacha, going back to injections, and loaner pumps.
Halacha
Diabetes & Halacha: 16 Shabbos Questions, Answered by the Rav
From running out of insulin before Shabbos to going low mid-Shemoneh Esrei, fasting, and carrying a pump where there’s no eruv — Rav Menachem Meir Weissmandl shlit”a answers 16 real-life halachic questions on living with diabetes on Shabbos and Yom Tov.
Halacha
דייעביטיס און הלכה: 16 שבת־שאלות, געענטפֿערט פֿונעם רב
פֿון אויסלאפן פֿון Insulin פאר שבת, ביז נידעריקער צוקער אינמיטן שמונה־עשרה, פאסטן, און טראָגן אַ Pump ווי עס איז נישטאָ קיין עירוב — הגאון רבי מנחם מאיר ווייסמאנדל שליט״א ענטפֿערט 16 הלכה־שאלות פֿון טאָג־טעגליכן לעבן מיט דייעביטיס אויף שבת און יום־טוב.
Shabbos & Yom Tov
Smartwatch Use on Shabbos — Raise to Wake or Button Press
Pesach
Pump & Sensor Prep Wipes on Pesach
Low Blood Sugars