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Page 1: Surrogate Motherhood and Halacha Smadar Goldstein

Surrogate Motherhood

and Halacha

Smadar Goldstein

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What’s happening?

mechanical placement of the embryo in the uterus after fertilization in the laboratory and placed in the body of another woman.

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What are the Halachic Issues?

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What are the Halachic issues?

donors פרו ורבו

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What is the first mitzvah of the Torah?

Bereshit 1:28Why?

To whom does it apply?

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Yehuda’s Sons: Bereshit 38:6-10 , יהיה לו לא כי אונן וידע

- בא; אם והיה הזרע , ושחת- אחיו אשת אל

, - זרע, נתן לבלתי ארצהלאחיו.

9 And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

', וירע  י אשר ה בעיני.וימתעשה; - אתו, גם

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What was Er’s sin? Why?

ה בעיני :'רעאונן של כרעתו

זרעו משחיתאותו ' גם וימת באונן 'שנאמר

ער של ,כמיתתואונן של מיתתו

? זרעו ו משחית ער היה למהיפיה ויכחיש תתעבר שלא (כדי לד) יבמות

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Halachic source;

• What was ‘wicked in the eyes of Hashem?’• What does this have to do with surrogate

motherhood?

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Surrogacy in the Torah – what’s the difference?

- : ז א ל בראשית

- : יב ט ל בראשית

- : ח א א שמואל

: טז ד רות

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Adultery?• In pioneering ruling,

Chief Rabbi Amar permits impoverished woman to use services of married surrogate mother in order to bring child into world