You are not alone.
Even in the Final Moments of Your Loved Ones Lives, Tzohar is with You.
Tzohar Through Hundred and Twenty:
Halachic-Ethical Guidance For Patients and Families
Service is provided Free of charge, throughout the country
Tzohar accompanies you throughout the Jewish life-cycle, in days of joy and celebration, and, when need be – also through painful moments.
What is the “Tzohar Through Hundred and Twenty ” Initiative?
“Tzohar Through Hundred and Twenty ” is a resource for families facing difficult decisions, questions, and Halachic topics regarding their loved ones who are reaching the end of life.
The development of modern medicine is also a major blessing –improving the quality of life and the average length of days. Along with this blessing, medical progress many families are faced with difficult dilemmas as their loved ones approach the end of their lives. Many families grapple with questions such as:
- Should we continue cardiopulmonary resuscitation of patients who are about to die at any cost?
- How should we act in the case of a patient who requests to stop his/her treatment?
- Is it permissible according to Halacha to discontinue a patient’s feeding tube?
- What is the Halacha’s stance regarding “mercy-killing”?
- Is it permissible to use painkillers even if they may shorten a patient’s life?
- In terms of connections to, and disconnections from, a breathing device – what is Halachic?
In complex situations as these, when your loved ones hang between life and death, you are called upon to make decisions about urgent Halachic and ethical dilemmas.
We Are Here for You:
Face-to-face guidance for patients and their families | Immediate answers to ethical and Halachic questions 24/6 | Receptive team of rabbis and social workers | Guidance throughout the country – free of charge
We have trained rabbis and social workers to guide patients and their families grappling with ethical and Halachic questions. Our staff are available for you six days a week, 24 hours a day, free of charge. We will come to any place we are needed, in order to assist with decision-making, and to provide strength and support.
For an immediate conversation, you are invited to call the Hotline *9253
Advisory Committee
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow
Head of the Center for Ethics at the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization
Member of many ethics committees
Rabbi David Stav
Rabbi Uriel Ganzel
Prof. Nachmi Baum
Head of the School of Social Work at Bar Ilan University
Dr. Dror Dicker
Director of Internal Medicine
The Sharon Hospital, Rabin Medical Center
Prof. Pierre Zinger
Director of the Internal-General Department and The Institute for Nutrition Research at Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva
Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Sackler Medical School: Challenges in Intensive Care, Nutrition and Metabolism
Rabbi David Stav
Chairman of the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization
Rabbi Uriel Ganzel
Director of the Tzohar Ethics Center
Prof. Nachmi Baum
Dr. Dror Dicker
Prof. Pierre Zinger
Director of the Internal-General Department and The Institute for Nutrition Research at Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva
Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Sackler Medical School: Challenges in Intensive Care, Nutrition and Metabolism
Prof. Charles Sprung
Director Emeritus, General Intensive Care Unit
Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital
Prof. Charles Sprung
Dr. Hagit Padova
VP Patient Quality and Safety
Expert in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology
Sourasky-Ichilov Tel Aviv Medical Center
Dr. Adir Shaulov
Association – Department of Hemotolgy and Center for Supportive Care, Hadassah Medical Center
Specialist in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Palliative Medicine
Dr. Boaz Tadmor
Specialist in Internal Diseases, Allergy and Clinical Immunology
He is instrumental in many decision-making processes in complex cases
He managed Beilinson Hospital for eight years and was a member of the hospital’s ethics and patient law committee
Dr. Netanel Horowitz
Head of the Hospital Administration, Director of ambulatory unit, Hematology division.
Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Dr. Hagit Padova
VP Patient Quality and Safety
Expert in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology
Sourasky-Ichilov Tel Aviv Medical Center
Dr. Adir Shaulov
Association – Department of Hemotolgy and Center for Supportive Care, Hadassah Medical Center
Specialist in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Palliative Medicine
Dr. Boaz Tadmor
Specialist in Internal Diseases, Allergy and Clinical Immunology
He is instrumental in many decision-making processes in complex cases
He managed Beilinson Hospital for eight years and was a member of the hospital’s ethics and patient law committee
Dr. Netanel Horowitz
Head of the Hospital Administration, Director of ambulatory unit, Hematology division.
Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
