[Avodah] Transgendering and Halachah

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 01:33:36AM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: TK:    If it was a "hypothetical case" then it wasn't  actually a psak at 
: all.  As for a teshuvah written by a doctor, that's not  a teshuvah written 
: by R' Waldenberg.

The hypothetical teshuvah was included by the author in a sefer shu"t. I
should point out that many posqim included hypothetical she'eilos in their
collections, including both the mechabeir and the Rama (in their respective
sifrei shu"t). The TE intended it to influence future posqim.

The second teshuvah was written by the TE. The she'eilah was by a doctor.

...
: TK:  According to what you and others have written, R'  Waldenberg's 
: concern in his first article (can't call it "psak" because it  was hypothetical)  
: was with finding ways to free an agunah. There is no mention there of 
: pikuach nefesh...

Actually, the teshuvah is about organ transplants. And yes, he did
explicitly raise the question of piquach nefesh.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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