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Volume 41: Number 5

Sun, 15 Jan 2023

• 1. Re: taker but not giver? (Zev Sero)
• 2. Subjectivity-from the OU - Bal TeShakTzu (Rabbi Meir G. Rabi)
• 3. Sheqel Kesef Coins in Anitiquity (Rabbi Meir G. Rabi)
• 4. Re: Sheqel Kesef Coins in Anitiquity (Micha Berger)

On 11/1/23 06:25, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> I heard an interesting comment from a Rabbi during a recent shiur. He 
> stated that he had been contacted by an international bone marrow 
> registry telling him that he was a partial match and to come down for 
> further testing. He consulted with a number of poskim and they told him 
> he was not required to get tested. He told one posek that if the 
> recipient was an frum Jew, that he would do it. The posek told him, very 
> good. The general response from the poskim was based on the fact that 
> since the majority of likely recipients were not Jewish, he didn?t have 
> to do it. (I?m guessing due to lo taamod only being for Jews)

I would guess that it had nothing to do with lo taamod.  I have never 
heard that lo taamod requires one to put oneself at risk, or to take 
such a drastic measure as donating bone marrow or an organ.  Even if the 
recipient is definitely a Jew it would surely only be a very good and 
proper thing to do, a great mitzvah, but not an obligation.  So if he is 
reluctant to do it for a nochri, that's his privilege.  If he says he 
would do it for a Jew, he deserves a "yasher koach", as he received.


-- 
Zev Sero            ?Were we directed from Washington when to sow
z...@sero.name       and when to reap, we should soon want bread.?
                    ?Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.

ShA YD 13:1 Rama - Fish and Chagavim do not require Shechita, they may be
consumed once dead, similarly one may consume pieces cut off whilst it
still lives. It is however prohibited to consume it as a live unit because
that violates Bal TeShaktzu.

This ruling seems to be UNIVERSAL unlike the following ruling which seems
to be SUBJECTIVE -
A Cohen whose constitution is ?refined? may consume the contents of the
Olah sacrifice, which seems to suggest that a Cohen who is repulsed by that
may NOT consume it, and we must contemplate if this is due to Bal TeShaktzu
or due to a violation of the sanctity of the Olah [unlikely because it
anyway will be chakked out, so what is the difference?]?

However, the Chachamim who forbid this in the first instance, only say this
for an Olah, NOT for a Neveilah - they agree that those WHO ARE NOT
DISGUSTED may eat it, those who can?t STOMACH it  :) may NOT.

However, when one is VERY hungry, their sensitivities change, no?



Best,

Meir G. Rabi

0423 207 837
+61 423 207 837
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Chazal identify coins were minted picturing an old man and woman on one
side - Rashi (Bava Kama 97b) explains Yitzchak and Rivka, and Avraham and
Sara [this must have been AFTER Avraham A begged HKBH to differentiate him
from his son - until then they looked like identical twins]


Also note they minted the couples rather than the men on one side and the
women on the other - UNLESS they had a Mechitzah between them!!


Best,

Meir G. Rabi

0423 207 837
+61 423 207 837
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 12:00:30PM +1100, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote:
> Chazal identify coins were minted picturing an old man and woman on one
> side - Rashi (Bava Kama 97b) explains Yitzchak and Rivka, and Avraham and
> Sara [this must have been AFTER Avraham A begged HKBH to differentiate him
> from his son - until then they looked like identical twins]

Does it say anywhere that the coins were made in their era?

It quotes a tannaitic statement about a Matbeia shel Yerushalayim and a
Matbeia shel Avraham Avinu and what they looked like. Since Avraham is
on the coin, a "coin of Avraham" is only telling you what's on the coin,
not who owned or coined it. The names fit the descriptions.

Why would Chazal have a statement about these matbei'os? Perhaps they were
privately minted medalions, and thus an interesting middle case between
state-minted kesef usable for machatzis hasheqel and a plain boring asimon.
Really, I don't know.

The Avraham coin is a list of "monitin" in Bereishis Rabba 39
https://www.sefaria.org/Bereishit_Rabbah.39.11 , the Y-m coin is not.
"Monitin" is from the same shoresh as the English words "mint" and
"monetary", but may also be related to monument, because the meaning of
"fame" or "reputation" took over the original etymology. Which is why
went with "medalion".

Either way, these coins / medalions also aren't particularly described
as the contemporary with the person they honor.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

-- 
Micha Berger                 Nearly all men can stand adversity,
http://www.aishdas.org/asp   but if you want to test a man's character,
Author: Widen Your Tent      give him power.
- https://amzn.to/2JRxnDF                    -Abraham Lincoln


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