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

AUERBACH, SHLOMO ZALMAN.

Jerusalem

1985

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.

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).