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==Smoking== | ==Smoking== | ||
# Most poskim hold that it is forbidden to smoke. <ref> Sh"t Tzitz Eliezer 17:21, Rav Chaim Kanievsky in Sheeilat Rav 1:52, Sh"t Teshuvot Vehanhagot 4:115, Rav Nisim Karelitz in a letter at the beginning of the book "Chaim Le-lo Ishun", Chacham Ovadia Yosef in Maran Peer Hador pg. 31, [http://www.rabbis.org/pdfs/Prohibition_Smoking.pdf Teshuva of the RCA], [http://koltorah.org/ravj/15-13_The_Prohibition_to_Smoke_1.htm Rabbi Chaim Jachter] </ref> | # Most poskim hold that it is forbidden to smoke. <ref> Sh"t Tzitz Eliezer 17:21, Rav Chaim Kanievsky in Sheeilat Rav 1:52, Sh"t Teshuvot Vehanhagot 4:115, Rav Nisim Karelitz in a letter at the beginning of the book "Chaim Le-lo Ishun", Chacham Ovadia Yosef in Maran Peer Hador pg. 31, [http://www.rabbis.org/pdfs/Prohibition_Smoking.pdf Teshuva of the RCA], [http://koltorah.org/ravj/15-13_The_Prohibition_to_Smoke_1.htm Rabbi Chaim Jachter] </ref> | ||
==Injuring oneself== | |||
# It is forbidden to injure or cause a wound to oneself.<ref></ref> If it is done for health purposes there is a discussion if it is permitted.<ref>Under certain circumstances, Igrot Moshe CM 2:65-66 permitted plastic surgery for aesthetic purposes.</ref> | |||
# It is absolutely forbidden to hit or injure someone else.<ref>The pasuk (Devarim 25:3) warns against hitting a guilty sinner more than necessary. Chazal learn from here the general prohibition to hit any Jew, since if the Torah forbids hitting a sinner how much more so anyone else. This is considered a negative commandment by the Rambam (Lavin n. 300) and Sefer HaChinuch (n. 595). </ref> In fact it is forbidden to insinuate that one is going to hit another Jew and one who does so is considered wicked.<ref>Chazal (Sanhedrin 58b) learn from Moshe that a Jew who raises his hand to hit another Jew is considered wicked. This is quoted by the Rambam (Sefer HaMitzvot lavin n. 300).</ref> | |||
===Paintballing=== | |||
# As explained earlier, it is absolutely forbidden to hit or injure someone else. There is a dispute whether one can allow someone else to injure oneself. A direct ramification of this dispute is whether it would be permitted to go paintballing knowing that it is very likely one will be injured but in advance agrees to it.<ref>[http://www.bknw.org/uploads/5/9/9/5/5995719/paintball.pdf Rabbi Yehuda Balsam] outlines a dispute between the Minchat Chinuch and Turei Even who hold that it is permitted to allow someone else to injure oneself and S"A HaRav who forbids this. He writes that a practical application of this dispute is whether it is permitted to go paintballing.</ref> | |||
===Donating Blood=== | |||
# Many poskim permit donating blood even though it involves inflicting a wound upon oneself. <Ref>Igrot Moshe CM 1:103, Nishmat Avraham YD 349:3</ref> | |||
==Piercings and Tattoos== | |||
Regarding piercings and tattoos see the [[Tattoos_&_Body_Piercing]] page. | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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