Judaism and feeding tubes

[voidcat]

First I want to say I'm not jewish. But I was listening to a Jewish person that had a feeding tube talk and I started to wondered if food taken through a tube has to be kosher or what not. So googling I found this interesting post on if a Jewish person with a feeding tube could say the prayers that are traditionally said over food or not

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It turns out apparently there's a debate if tube feeding in the Jewish community is considered eating or not. Some rabbis consider it more similar to taking meds through an IV so as such using a tube to get nutrients reciting the prayers regarding food is considered inappropriate. Others disagree with this opinion and think it's fine to.

I thought this was interesting. I currently am looking up a lot of stuff on disability and different religions how might disability impact religious beliefs so that was one reason I googled the information there. I have a few plans on making a few threads disability and spiritual/religious beliefs how they may impact the occult etc but have yet to finish reading up on several topics and looking up stuff. But I figured this would be an interesting thing to note before I make those threads for no other reason then I thought it interesting.

It opens a few questions for me like what might one consider say talking in occult rituals? Would aac count? What might someone consider a prayer if someone does not speak? It makes me realize some day to day tasks are affected by disability in terms of religion that I likely would not think of. Something as simple as getting nutrients can be debated in how it affects ritual when it comes to religion. So just something to think about as I read up on things.

 

[Morell]

I agree that this is interesting topic. It is also one of grey zones, where no opinion is clearly correct.

When it comes to praying and speaking in ritual, here is my two cents: It is speaking it when you use your mind for it, either by speaking it loud or speaking it in your mind. Sound from device doesn't count, because you are hearing yourself, but are not active in making words, it's pasive instead of active speaking.

 

[voidcat]

I agree that this is interesting topic. It is also one of grey zones, where no opinion is clearly correct.

When it comes to praying and speaking in ritual, here is my two cents: It is speaking it when you use your mind for it, either by speaking it loud or speaking it in your mind. Sound from device doesn't count, because you are hearing yourself, but are not active in making words, it's pasive instead of active speaking.

Typing it then using the device to speak is actively making the words and thinking it through. To me if writing is prayer then so is using text to speech as aac provided the person writes it out. It is actively speaking just using different muscles. I think it may depend more on the ritual in my opinion on what the goal is what kind of aac is right.

If for example the feeling of vibration of sound is important to said ritual to raise energy and not repetition and thinking on the words then typing text to speech may not be the best method. But for some rituals it could be fine.

To clarify: This is in terms of rituals in general with the occult not with Judaism I don't know the rules with rituals regarding the occult Judaism and speaking.