[Avodah] Concerts in Reform temples

[Sarah Green]

>From a shiur by Mrs. Esther Wein (see 
http://www.torahanytime.com/Mrs/Esther_Wein/index.html for more... I believe it 
was Parshas Re'eh I heard this - I am paraphrasing)

She describes how she was a madricha in a seminary at the time when there was a 
drive to find potential bone marrow donors for Jay Feinberg, and she asked her 
grandfather, Rav Shimon Schwab, ztz"l, whether she could take the girls to a 
local testing site at a non-O place of worship.  RSS asked if there was any 
alternative.

Well, she told him, she could go two weeks later to another testing site in 
Westchester, but they'd have to rent transportation, and spend several hours 
traveling.

He thought for a moment and said, "Esther, go to Westchester."

She asked, "Opa, for pikuach nefesh you can't be mattir to go into that 
building?" 


His answer: "Esther, for pikuach nefesh, you can't shlep to Westchester?"



      
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