Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Akin To Murder, But Not Murder, The Beit Yehuda and the Chofetz Chaim

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So far we have described two of the opinions that hold that the prohibition of abortion is rabbinic in origin. We described the opinion of R...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Waste Issue Revisited, and Rav Yaakov Emden

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In a previous post , we described the opinion of the Chavos Yair that the prohibition of abortion is due to the issur of hotza’at zerah leva...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

R' Palagi and R' Eliyahu Mizrachi - Abortion as a Rabbinic Decree

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Until this point, we have been searching for mekorot (sources) that explained that abortions are prohibited due to some issur (prohibition) ...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Is abortion a Rabbinic decree or a Torah Prohibition?

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I am going to interrupt our series of reasons for the abortion “prohibition” to deal with a fundamental issue that many of the poskim have t...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Is it a Waste? The opinion of the Chavos Yair

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We now move on to another very famous and important teshuva on the topic of abortion, and a fascinating question that many poskim have dealt...
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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Can Abortion be Considered Stealing from the Fetus?

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As we plow through the various issurim (prohibitions) that have been suggested as possible origins for the prohibition against abortion, we ...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Abortion as Gezeilah - Can a Fetus be Considered Property?

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We will now move on to the next reason why abortions may be prohibited, the prohibition of gezeilah, or stealing. This is to be differentiat...