How Much Risk? The Gemara does not explicitly state how much risk to Chayei Shaah we are permitted to assume. This issue, however, is debated by nineteenth and twentieth century Poskim.
Leib Goldstein is a 65 year old widowed man with Alzheimer’s type dementia that first manifested ten years ago. Now in the later stages of the disease, he cannot interact meaningfully with his environment, and his doctors say there is…
