[Avodah] Is there any issur here al pi halacha? - New York man pleads guilty to selling Israeli human organs

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Tue Nov 1 17:51:14 PDT 2011


On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 06:08:54PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 1/11/2011 4:24 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>> But whichever rules of triage are nog'im lemaaseh, may one buy an organ
>> in order to facilitate a violation of the rules of triage?

> I don't understand how there can be a hava amina that one may not.  The
> rules at the end of Horiyos are for a communal kuppah, not for a yachid
> helping his relatives and friends, let alone himself...

So a yachid may /buy/ organs. But we were speaking of brokering, not the
consumer. if some avaryan or not bar chiyuva were Maybe it's permissable
to be the consumer of an avaryan or someone who isn't a bar chiyuva.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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