Double Murder or Lifesaver The Halachic Debate Behind Modern Heart Transplants 11 07 2025

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Plutchok’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

We're going to continue with another topic in the like I guess selection of topics that we've been discussing related loosely to din a rodef, the death and the dying. Um, very lofty topic. Um, in any case, I wanted to discuss the shailo of organ transplants, in particular the shailo of heart transplants. Now, I want to start like this. Um, if you look there's there's a whole like subgenre of people who are interested in this stuff. If you scan the records of the patent office, United States patent office has probably United States patent office has probably millions of patents at this point for products that people, you know, develop. And you could like chart where things were holding in society by looking at like the different inventions people were coming up with at different times. Like meaning they were people were trying to solve particular problems at particular times. Now, most of them are like cockamamie inventions. They don't make sense. They never got off the ground. They never happened. Uh, there's a time in the in the late 1700s, early 1800s, even to the mid-1800s, like into the late even into the late 1800s, there was a terrible fear that people had of being

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6. 14:13because um, the body tends to reject foreign organs that don't belong to the body. And…
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