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* Rav Osher Weiss (Minchas Asher 1:25) writes that the Sefer Chassidim is, as its name suggests, merely a middat chassidut without any real source. Therefore, it is not worthwhile to burden the whole family with having to move for Shabbat, or burden somebody else with hosting you. | * Rav Osher Weiss (Minchas Asher 1:25) writes that the Sefer Chassidim is, as its name suggests, merely a middat chassidut without any real source. Therefore, it is not worthwhile to burden the whole family with having to move for Shabbat, or burden somebody else with hosting you. | ||
* Although in Orchos Rabbenu (pg. 160) it is told that the Chazon Ish told his sister that she should stay near the hospital when she was in her ninth month, that is not really the strict law.</ref> However, if she feels the labor coming on, she should try to get to the hospital before Shabbat.<ref>Ketzot Hashulchan 130:Badei Hashulchan 3, Yalkut Yosef 330:3, Torat Hayoledet pg. 17 </ref> | * Although in Orchos Rabbenu (pg. 160) it is told that the Chazon Ish told his sister that she should stay near the hospital when she was in her ninth month, that is not really the strict law.</ref> However, if she feels the labor coming on, she should try to get to the hospital before Shabbat.<ref>Ketzot Hashulchan 130:Badei Hashulchan 3, Yalkut Yosef 330:3, Torat Hayoledet pg. 17 </ref> | ||
# Before Shabbat a person should try to do anything that he will need to do on Shabbat in order to minimize the Chilul Shabbat necessary. For example, he should leave any documentations necessary at the hospital before Shabbat. He should turn off any lights in the car that would go on in the car before Shabbat.<ref>[https://www.torahanytime.com/#/lectures?a=39976 Rav Yaakov Mizrahi] </ref> | # Before Shabbat a person should try to do anything that he will need to do on Shabbat in order to minimize the Chilul Shabbat necessary. For example, he should leave any documentations necessary at the hospital before Shabbat. He should turn off any lights in the car that would go on in the car before Shabbat.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 40:30, [https://www.torahanytime.com/#/lectures?a=39976 Rav Yaakov Mizrahi] </ref> | ||
==Transportation to Hospital== | ==Transportation to Hospital== | ||
