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<DIV>RMB wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Realize that the health risk doesn't rise up
to halachically significant<BR>levels. There are a few cases of permanent harm
among hundreds of<BR>thousands of berisim. And while "even one is too many", the
same is true<BR>of traffic fatalities. More Jewish kinderlach die or are
permanently<BR>injured in car accidents, r"l. Do you think we have to assur
letting<BR>children cross the street, too?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">CM notes:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">I think there is a clear difference between
the examples you raise like “crossing the street” and a mohel actively passing
on a disease via metsitse bepeh. While both may may have a very tiny probability
of occurrence (I have no idea of the relative size of tiny here), but from my
point of view, metsistse bepeh is your act beyodayim and a risk you can 100%
eliminate by merely only permitting mohalim who are not carriers of the virus,
whereas accidents when crossing the street are not your act beyodayim, nor is it
possible to live your live so that you avoid that risk 100% and live risk
free. So I think there is room to consider the pikuach nefesh you may
cause beyodayim if you are infected by the virus, even if the probability of a
bad outcome is small, and to be CERTAIN that you are not the cause of even a
minimal risk to the life of the infant, by only permitting those who are not
carriers to perform metsitse bepeh (if you are among those who insist upon it)..
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<DIV>Kol Tuv</DIV>
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<DIV>Chaim Manaster</DIV>
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