Rabbi Linzer looks at some of Rav Moshe’s most groundbreaking and famous teshuvot around fertility and artificial insemination. In them, Rav Moshe takes a practical approach to halakhic ruling that isn’t concerned about cultural discomforts.
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https://library.yctorah.org/files/2018/12/Iggros-Moshe-EH-1-71-Artificial-Insemination.pdf
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https://library.yctorah.org/files/2018/12/Iggros-Moshe-EH-1-10-Artificial-Insemination-with-Donor-Sperm-Status-of-the-wife-and-child.pdf
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https://library.yctorah.org/files/2018/12/Iggros-Moshe-EH-4-32-Section-5-Artificial-Insemination-with-non-Jewish-sperm.pdf
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https://library.yctorah.org/files/2018/12/Iggros-Moshe-EH-2-11-Responding-to-criticism-of-his-pesakim-about-AI.pdf
Teshuvot about how to halakhically procure the semen of her husband for testing or insemination when medically indicated.
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https://library.yctorah.org/lindenbaum/iggros-moshe-a-to-z-f-is-for-fertility/
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https://library.yctorah.org/files/2018/12/Iggros-Moshe-EH-1-71-Artificial-Insemination.pdf
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https://library.yctorah.org/files/2018/12/Iggros-Moshe-EH-2-18-Artifical-Insemination-during-7-Clean-Days.pdf
Rabbi Linzer looks at a teshuvah about whether a testicular biopsy for the purpose of aiding a man’s fertility makes him a petzuah daka – injured in a way that would prohibit him from marrying. Along the way, Rav Moshe makes astonishing claims about the relationship between science and halakhic change.
https://library.yctorah.org/files/2018/12/Iggros-Moshe-EH-2-3.pdf