The Halachic Storm Over Autopsies 07 06 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.

Okay, good morning. Um, okay. In in a true pivot away from Khan and Dning, we're going to talk about autopsies. So, uh, whatever. Still, we'll move on to the death, the death and dying. Now, um, I I came across a a drussa from that he gave by the Mas in 1968 and he said as follows. He saidal say and this is just a few weeks ago parishes say that went to the invas and when I go there he says there's a handful of requests that I make always when I go there he says first I ask and it's interesting how resonant these things are a lot of them would still be very applicable today he says the first thing I ask is you have he says he I tell the office you have to help us out with we can't be anymore it's not working out for us. You have to help us out with that. He says and then the second request that I ask for is he says three things should open up the the eyes of of the our brothers in Israel who aren't from they should stop being with me. They they should stop being with me. They should stop drafting kids to the army and they should leave the yeshivas alone. This is his three this is in 1968. He said this by the mash that these are his three uh you know consistent feel when he goes to kyavas. Now to me it struck me the part that was that was that he includes um in that short list of like the major almost like existential threats to tok you know in the 60s. Now it shows us really what type what level of of issue it was meaning in the 50s and the 60s

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1. 0:02Okay, good morning. Um, okay. In in a true pivot away from Khan and Dning, we're…
2. 3:16it said on the on the on the paper the the stipler in a letter writes…
3. 6:222004 so do the math he must have been in his 40s you know he was…
4. 9:28It's a sim for the mace. If he gets some sort of embarrassment before he's put…
5. 12:33There was a child that happened about a dead almost adult child. Could we dig up…
6. 15:34anything that you're doing that's going to cause the the flesh to decompose quicker to bring…
7. 18:38intestines and figure out exactly what went wrong over here. See how this this stone got…
8. 21:45have my knife sharpened now, I might have it later. You can make into a watershed…
9. 24:48and in particular and two take the task and they argue a lot of riots the…
10. 27:51know right away and some like says should be able to allow autopsies for any illness…

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