Do Oral Medications Need To Be Kosher?
• ANSWER: Since the Torah is quite specific, a simplistic answer would be as follows: Q. What are the limitations that The Torah impose upon us as to what we may eat? A. The Torah only allows us to eat food that is Kosher. Q. What does the Torah prohibit us from eating? A. The Torah prohibits us from eating food that is not Kosher. Period. But before we shut the door on this issue, let us discuss a Halacha that might just be pertinent to these issues. This is the Halacha that deals with questions of Life and Death. Q. To what degree is it incumbent on a Jew to not to violate a precept of the Torah? Would it mean that that one would have to be ready to die so not to violate a commandment? A. With three exceptions, the Torah commands us to place the value of life above everything, even above the laws of the Torah. When a person’s life is in danger, not only ‘may’ he take non-kosher medication, but he ‘must’ take such medication [only if no comparable Kosher medication is available at han
