[Audio below.] Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has written several seforim on halacha and on the moadim called Gevuras Akiva. In addition, he releases a gilyon on the parsha in halacha and aggada every week.
Rabbi Kostner previously learned at Yeshiva of Far Rockaway, Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah and Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim.
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A kohen can not become a doctor. Show me one teshuva that says it is muttar.
Unless u r on an Island with no other doctors
There is no heter to go to medical school where y will
Have to be metamei on the tzad that maybe u will become a doctor…
There was talk about touro college opening up a medical class
For kohanim that would not need to be metamei.
Some poskim say that dental school is muttar
I am Kohen and was looking to become a doctor and there were definitely options available.