Burial and Autopsies in Jewish Law

Speaker:
Ask speaker
Date:
January 12 2019
Length:
56min 6s
Downloads:
129
Views:
1065
Comments:
0

Venue: Boyaner Shtiebel (New York, NY) Boyaner Shtiebel (New York, NY)

Halacha:

Description

Is there are mitzva to bury gentiles? Can one fulfill burial after cremation? Is there aveilus after reinterment? Can one forgo aveilus via being told about the death after thirty days? Can one use a metal coffin? What three isurim apply to performing a autopsy? Is a autopsy permitted to save a life? Can one wear a wig from the hair of a cadaver? Can medical students dissect a cadaver? Can one perform a autopsy to solve a murder? Can one perform heart transplants? Can one receive the cornea from a Jewish cadaver? Are the poor and blind really considered as dead? Is the law of the Kenesset requiring family permission for a autopsy, following Jewish law? Was it right for Americans to demonstrate in public against Israel performing autopsies?

    More from this:
    Comments
    0 comments
    Leave a Comment
    Title:
    Comment:
    Anonymous: 

    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today by Leon & Rhea Landau in memory of Emanuel & Leah Landau and Jacob & Selma Frost and in memory of Hindu & Pinchas Chaimovitz, Batya Gitel bat Moshe Aaron, Yosef Malachi Geudalia HY"D, Ben Zussman HY"D, and Oma Els z"l and by the Spira family l'ilui nishmat Chanoch ben Moshe Chaim, Dr. Thomas Spira and in loving memory of Dr. Felix Glaubach, אפרים פישל בן ברוך, to mark his first yahrtzeit, by Miriam, his children, grandchildren & great grandchildren