[Avodah] strange story

[Eli Turkel]

there is a difference between clinically dead and not having a heart.
We all know the various opinions at which point a person is considered
halachically dead and it need not be the same as clinically dead.

The original teshuvot about a lack of a heart concerned a chicken without
a heart and its effect on kashrut. I belivee it was Yaavetz who argued that
you can't have a live chicken without a heart even though it is not on the
list of terefot. Similarly a man without a heart (temporarily) would be
halachically dead. After the operation is he alive again (techiyas hameseim)?

I thought there is a teshuva of the Tzitz Eliezer on the question but
I am abroad
without my seforim

kol tuv

Eli Turkel

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Gershon Dubin <gershon.dubin at juno.com> wrote:
> -- "Eli Turkel" <eliturkel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <<I vaguely recall a similar discussion about a man undergoing a heart
> transplant. There is a short time that a man has no heart. Some wanted
> to rule that a man without a heart (?) is considered halachic
> dead and so after the operation is wife is an almanah bechaye baala>>
>
> No need to go so far;  anyone who suffers a cardiac arrest is clinically dead, but I've never heard of anyone putting him in a separate halachic class.
>
> Gershon
> gershon.dubin at juno.com
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> Become a Dental Assistant and earn up to $50/ hour. Click here.
> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3oLq6vWeqVe4ZaGeos3xlOa8d3h9oGqUwcLje2mSzCVOqlTf/
>



-- 
Eli Turkel