[Avodah] taker but not giver?

[Zev Sero]

On 11/1/23 06:25, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> I heard an interesting comment from a Rabbi during a recent shiur. He 
> stated that he had been contacted by an international bone marrow 
> registry telling him that he was a partial match and to come down for 
> further testing. He consulted with a number of poskim and they told him 
> he was not required to get tested. He told one posek that if the 
> recipient was an frum Jew, that he would do it. The posek told him, very 
> good. The general response from the poskim was based on the fact that 
> since the majority of likely recipients were not Jewish, he didn’t have 
> to do it. (I’m guessing due to lo taamod only being for Jews)

I would guess that it had nothing to do with lo taamod.  I have never 
heard that lo taamod requires one to put oneself at risk, or to take 
such a drastic measure as donating bone marrow or an organ.  Even if the 
recipient is definitely a Jew it would surely only be a very good and 
proper thing to do, a great mitzvah, but not an obligation.  So if he is 
reluctant to do it for a nochri, that's his privilege.  If he says he 
would do it for a Jew, he deserves a "yasher koach", as he received.


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Zev Sero            “Were we directed from Washington when to sow
zev at sero.name       and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
		    –Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.