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  • February 8, 2012 4:10 pm at 4:10 pm in reply to: Is it mutar to be an organ donor? #853609
    brainy
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    R’ Moshe Feinstein in a T’shuva (YD 2:174) http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=919&st=&pgnum=290, says that it is in fact a mitzva to donate an organ after death to save a life. The issue is that the organs are largely useless after complete cessation of heart function.

    Many want to claim that brain stem death is Halachic death even while there is still heart function, (organs donated at this point would still be valuable). Some claim that this position was agreed to by R’ Moshe. But whether R’ Moshe actually held this position although he never wrote it clearly in a T’shuva is a matter of great controversy and is at the heart of the debate about Halachic organ donation.

    January 3, 2012 1:32 am at 1:32 am in reply to: Chemistry/Biology/Physics/Biochemistry/Math #841641
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    thecurious one, I have a question. HOw many chromosomes are there after telphase? 46 or 92?

    January 2, 2012 8:38 pm at 8:38 pm in reply to: Chemistry/Biology/Physics/Biochemistry/Math #841635
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    Come on Health, what are you? Tell us, tell us, then we will stop bothering you.

    We don’t even know who you are so just tell us what you do. Are you a nurse?

    October 16, 2011 2:37 pm at 2:37 pm in reply to: Highway crash #817643
    brainy
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    Or grad school, although I am in grad school.

    October 16, 2011 2:36 pm at 2:36 pm in reply to: Highway crash #817642
    brainy
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    No, no, no. It is a mashal and the nimshal does not relate to driving.

    October 16, 2011 5:02 am at 5:02 am in reply to: Highway crash #817639
    brainy
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    No, that’s not the point. Anybody else want to guess the point?

    September 7, 2011 3:02 am at 3:02 am in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807652
    brainy
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    “lesschumras: It’s only kfira to join a Jewish army. “

    It’s kfira to join an army? What does that even mean?

    He just meant that it’s muktza to join the army.

    September 4, 2011 3:39 pm at 3:39 pm in reply to: girls!!!! DON"T SELL YOURSELVES CHEAP!!! #805778
    brainy
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    No, unfortunately this is not a troll. I know shteiger personally. She is a nut case.

    September 4, 2011 4:04 am at 4:04 am in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807595
    brainy
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    Squeak, I gather, then, that you do not know what OP means.

    College grad, I agree with you that The fact that everyone is expected to learn and looked down upon if they don’t is wrong.

    But for the people that are cut out for learning, and want to, and have a spouse who wants them to, they should not be looked down upon and be expected to not learn. And they will become a Rebbi and they will make a modest living, and I assure you that none of these people would have a problem with someone whose passion is to got to school for 10 years to become a mathematician and make the same modest salary.

    My issue is more with the attitude than the argument.

    September 4, 2011 3:25 am at 3:25 am in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807591
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    I am not saying that people can’t agree with my view. What bothers me is the hatred with which they do it. Learning in yeshiva is to you a bigger crime than any other sin. I see no such passion when you discuss people who lie, or say lashon hara, or are paid in cash and don’t report their income, sins far greater than learning in yeshiva. The anger and hatred you have towards people devoting their entire lives to what they feel Hashem demands of them is the part that is unjustifiable.

    September 4, 2011 3:24 am at 3:24 am in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807590
    brainy
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    Squeak, please read before you make yourself look silly. I made no reference to any shiur and I did not try to post a link.

    September 4, 2011 1:58 am at 1:58 am in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807587
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    Brainy, I don’t think every Jew is obligated to become a Talmid Chacham.

    Every talmid chacham today would be considered an utter am haaretz two or three hundred years ago. He would demand no respect. What then makes him a talmid chacham?

    He is a talmid chacham because under the present circumstances, in a weak generation, he has accomplished significantly relative to his humble potential.

    Every Jew, then can accomplish significantly relative to his potential. This is required of every Jew. (At the very least it is required of a significant portion of Jews, not one per blooblagleebla).

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