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[lifewarrior]

Hilchos Viagra

In keeping with the Jewish
tradition of debating everything, this
question had to come up.


Subject: Is it okay to take Viagra on Shabbat?

A well respected San Francisco psychoanalyst

and a member of the Board of Trustees of Beyt Tikkun
Synagogue (and frequently published author in the pages of Tikkun) has brought the following
question to our community, and hopes that its best
Talmudic scholars might think more about it:



Is it okay to take Viagra on Shabbat?



One Rabbi says that Jewish law forbids the
ingestion of Viagra on
Shabbat, lest one violate the infraction of
erecting a structure on the Sabbath.

But another Rabbi says that as a medication

that adds pleasure to the
Sabbath (not to mention the rest of the week),
it is permissible. But it
is banned during Pesach (Passover) - along
with all other agents causing things to rise.



And what borucha (blessing) does one say before taking the Viagra pill?



There is a choice of three blessings:



1. Boruch Atah HaShem zokeif k'fuffim -

bless you God for straightening those who are bent;

2. Ya'aleh v'yavo - arise and come;



3. Boruch Atah HaShem mechaye i hameitim -

bless you God for raising the dead.