[Avodah] Donating a kidney if the recipient may be secular

Ben Waxman ben1456 at zahav.net.il
Fri May 25 10:05:52 PDT 2018


Ever wonder what is the nafka mina of deciding if secular people are 
tinok sh'nishba or not? Here is a biggy. There is (apparently) a 
machloket between Rav Kanyevski and Rav Edelstein if it is permitted to 
donate a kidney if it may end up in someone secular. RK believes it 
shouldn't be done because he paskens like Rav Elyashiv that no one today 
has the din of tinok sh'nishba and therefore they shouldn't get this 
type of help from the religious. RE paskens like the classic Chazon Ish 
psak that today's secular people do have the tinok din  and therefore it 
is permitted to donate a kidney to a secular person.

See the article (Hebrew) for more details.

http://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/558795




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