Quotation from Yitzhak Ginsburg “Can you take the liver of (a) non-Jew? The Torah would probably permit that” — Apr. 26 1996
Originally from the USA, influential leader of one of the mystical currents of Judaism, the Derech Chaim movement.
Author :
- Ginsburg, Yitzhak (1944-) ( 2 quotations )
- Racism from the Halakha (religious) ( 28 quotations )
" If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life. "
Published in Jewish Week
(New York).
Quoted by Shahak and Mezvinsky Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel
(2nd edition), Pluto Press, 2004, p.62.
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