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Volume 40: Number 18

Thu, 10 Mar 2022

• 1. Rabbi not answering a question (Joel Rich)
• 2. Triage (Joel Rich)
• 3. Discovered text (Joel Rich)
• 4. Re: Triage (Zev Sero)
• 5. Re: Discovered text (Zev Sero)
• 6. On Taanis Esther, if I have a headache, am I permitted to break my fast? (Prof. L. Levine)
• 7. Toiveling a Tray Used for mishloach manos (Prof. L. Levine)
• 8. Mishloach Manos with Shemitta Produce (Prof. L. Levine)

Question about a statement made in a shiur that there were some questions
that a rabbi shouldn?t answer but let the person do as they will. I wasn?t
clear as to whether that was based on the thought that the person would not
listen or some other basis. What I would want to understand is if someone
comes in asking for a psak why is it preferable not to tell him what we
understand God?s will to be?



Kt

Joel rich

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What would halacha say about this triage?:
The Maryland center is one of several transplant centers that had declined
to list Mr. Bennett for the chance to receive a human heart because he had
failed to comply with doctors? orders and attend follow-up visits,
according to Mr. Bennett?s son, David Bennett Jr. He said his father, who
has a family history of heart disease, takes his medication ?here and
there? but not consistently.

?It was a hard blow that he got turned down for a human heart, but at the
same time I realize that the powers that be have to have some objective
criteria in determining who will be most successful with the hearts,? the
younger Mr. Bennett said.

Bartley P. Griffith, a professor of transplant surgery who performed the
operation, said transplant centers follow strict guidelines when deciding
who is eligible for heart transplantation. Because of the shortage of human
hearts and other organs, the centers take into account social issues such
as family support and the ability and willingness of patients to follow the
lifelong medication regimens needed to ensure that the organ stays healthy
after transplantation.



Kt

Joel rich

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How do those who propound the theory that texts recently discovered were
kept out of the main stream by god?s will, understand why did he allow us
to find them now? As a test or as a hint that now is the time to
incorporate them or something else?
Kt
Joel Rich
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On 9/3/22 03:57, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> What would halacha say about this triage?:

It seems to me that wherever you have one organ and multiple cholim 
lefaneinu who need it, then a priori you have no more chiyuv to one of 
them than to the others.  In principle, triage should follow the 
hierarchy in Horiyos, but where that is not applicable because all the 
cholim rank equally on it, it seems to me that you're free to apply 
whatever criteria you like, so the ones in general use today, which are 
described in the article, are just as good as any others.

-- 
Zev Sero            Wishing everyone health, wealth, and
z...@sero.name       happiness in 2022

On 9/3/22 03:56, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> How do those who propound the theory that texts recently discovered were 
> kept out of the main stream by god?s will, understand why did he allow 
> us to find them now? As a test or as a hint that now is the time to 
> incorporate them or something else?

It seems to me that if one holds there is some magic date at which 
halacha is frozen, then it would make sense that Hashem would suppress 
those texts that He didn't want us to follow before that date, and then 
release them later because Torah Hi Velilmod Ani Tzarich.  We need to 
know what these chachamim taught, but they shouldn't influence our 
practice, so once we froze our practice it was safe to release them.

Of course that is only if one actually accepts this whole premise.


-- 
Zev Sero            Wishing everyone health, wealth, and
z...@sero.name       happiness in 2022

From today's OU Kosher Halacha Yomis


Q. On Taanis Esther, if I have a headache, am I permitted to break my fast?

A. The halachos regarding breaking one?s fast on Taanis Esther are more
lenient than with regard to other fasts. This is because the Rama (OC
686:2) writes that fasting on Taanis Esther is not a complete obligation.
Taanis Esther is not explicitly mentioned in the Nevi?im (Prophets) or in
the Talmud as a fast day. However, since it has become customary to fast on
this day, one may not separate themselves from the rest of the Jewish
people. Because Taanis Esther is more lenient, the Mishnah Berurah (686:4)
writes that the custom in many places is that expectant or nursing mothers
may eat even if they do not feel any discomfort. The Piskei Teshuvos
(686:3) quotes many sources that write that today, this is the prevailing
custom. An additional leniency is that on most fasts, one who is ill need
not fast, but a common headache does not constitute an illness. However, on
Taanis Esther, even one who has a headache is permitted to break their
fast. However, one who has a headache might want
  to consider whether they really want to break their fast, since they are required to make up the fast at a later date (Rama ibid).

YL
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From today's OU Halacha Yomis


Q. This Purim, I am planning to send cookies to my neighbor on a metal tray
for mishloach manos. Should I tovel the tray, or should my neighbor perform
the tevilah?

A. Bais Yosef (Yoreh De?ah 120) writes that tevilah is only required for
utensils used with food. Thus, if a Jewish store owner buys utensils from a
non-Jew for resale, the merchant is not obligated to perform the mitzvah of
tevilah. Since there is no mitzvah, even if the merchant was tovel the
utensils, the tevilah would be ineffective; the purchaser would be required
to perform tevilah in spite of the earlier tevilah. Similarly, a tray
purchased as a stand-alone gift cannot be toveled before it reaches the
recipient. However, if the gift will be a tray with food on it (such as
mishloach manos on a tray), there is a dispute whether the giver is
required to perform tevilah. Therefore, the proper procedure in the latter
case is for the giver to tovel the tray without a bracha and then inform
the recipient that he too should tovel the tray without a bracha.

YL
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From https://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/9789


With Purim rapidly approaching in our Shemitta year, andwithSheviis produce
now commonly commercially available, an important question is raised.
Although we know that the Purim mitzvah of Mishloach Manos (sending food
items to a friend) is intended to foster brotherhood and camaraderie, may
one gift his friend produce with KedushasSheviis for Mishloach Manos?
Alternatively, are these ?holy fruits? perhaps considered too ?holy? for
such Purim use? Interestingly, there is no clear-cut solution to this Purim
dilemma, and contemporary authorities are divided as to the halacha.

However, to properly understand the issues involved, some background is necessary.

See the above URL for a comprehensive treatment of this topic by Rabbi Yehudah Spitz.

YL

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