(Leading Posek and Rosh Yeshivah of Kol Torah, 1910-95).

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 212

AUERBACH, SHLOMO ZALMAN.

(Leading Posek and Rosh Yeshivah of Kol Torah, 1910-95).

Autograph notes and corrections to a typed article by Dr. Abraham S. Abraham concerning organ transplants. Dr. Abraham here encourages a healthy person to undertake a potentially dangerous operation and donate a body-organ, if the result would be to save another person’s life. Prof. Abraham cites Rabbi Auerbach’s opinion that not only is such an act halachically permitted - it is in fact incumbent upon the donor to act so. However Rabbi Auerbach writes here that this sentence should be removed from the article as other Gedolim do not agree with his position. Two typewritten pages with pen-and-ink marginal notes. Stained. 4to.

Jerusalem: 1985

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach was world-renowned as one of Orthodoxy’s greatest halachic authorities - broadly acclaimed as a prolific author of responsa and halachic works, focusing especially upon medical and technological matters. This early responsa to a cutting-edge modern medical matter related to an article that Dr. Abraham published in Hamayan, Nissan, 1985 (included in lot).