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127.
“All the rights and privileges of the Koken, as well as the prohibitions apply among Orthodox Jews today.” Encyclopaedia Judaica , vol. 13, p. 1089. Shulkhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim 23: 9.
Kitzur Schulhan Arukh Even ha-Ezer 100:1.
Shulkhan Arukh, Hoshen Mishpat 164:1.
Ibid., 202:1.
“Even nowadays, a priest is prohibited from becoming ritually defiled. The highest grade of such defilement occurs if a kohen touches a dead body or is present under the same roof with a dead body. Therefore, a kohen should not study to become a male-nurse[or physician].” Abraham Steinberg, MedicalHalachic Decisions of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910-1995), Assia, Jan. 1997, at 37.
Kitzur Schulchan Aruch.
Rabbi's Manual, p. 235.
“There are t hree[persons] who drive the Shekhinah from the world...[the second is]he who cohabits with the daughter of a gentile.” Bleich, Gp. Cit., 2, p. 268(quoting Zohar , Shemot 3b).
-“The Halakhah with regard to the children of a union between a Jew and a
non-Jew is well established. The child acquires the religious status of the mother.” Ibid., 103. See also Kiddushin 68b.“Your son by an Israelite woman is called your son, but your son by a heathen is not called your son[but her
son.]”
.“The general prohibition against incest with one’s‘near of kin(Lev. 18:6)
has been held to be limited to the following degrees on consanguinity: parents(18:7); mother-in-law(20:14); stepmother(18:8); sister and half sister (18:9)...” Encyclopaedia Judaica , vol. 8, p. 1316.
“According to Halakhah , a bastard is defined as a child born ofan adulterous or incestuous relationship and may marry only a person of similar birth or a convert. A mamzer[bastard] is forbidden to marry a Jew of legitimate birth.” Bleich, Op. Cit, vol. 1, p- 159. 2: “[Sages] did not make pronouncements based upon traditions derived from the prophets, which they had in those matters, but rather because they nd knowledge on these subjects in terms of the general level of knowledge o those generations, or they became aware of those opinions from those who were knowledgeable in those generations.” Dov I. Frimer,“Establishing Paternity By Means of Blood Type Testing,” Assia, May 1989, p. 22.
Moses Maimonides , Guide to the Perplexed,(Chaim Rabin tr .), 1947.
“We would not need a 100% reliability of blood test results. Inasmuch A ‘majority’ is sufficient(e.g.‘a majority of a woman's sexual unions are bos to be]with her husband’), the halachah would accept reliable Boe tee results together with other evidence, whether positive or Rega whe have a greater than 50% degree of reliability.” Frimer, Op. Cit., P: 27.: This would not make determinations with regard to such questions as per sonal status as a kohen. It would, however, eliminate the potential for incest.
128 Van Rensselaer Potter , Bioethics , New York , 1971. y 2 129." Alan M. Sokobin,“A Child Was Killed: Shaken Baby Syndrome; A Compar
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