Surrogate Motherhood and Halacha Smadar Goldstein

What’s happening? mechanical placement of the embryo in the uterus after fertilization in the laboratory and placed in the body of another woman.

What are the Halachic Issues?

What are the Halachic issues? donors פרו ורבו lineageConvert?emotionalreligionsingle

What is the first mitzvah of the Torah? Bereshit 1:28 Why? To whom does it apply?

Yehuda’s Sons: Bereshit 38:6-10 וַיֵּדַע אוֹנָן, כִּי לֹּא לוֹ יִהְיֶה הַזָּרַע; וְהָיָה אִם-בָּא אֶל- אֵשֶׁת אָחִיו, וְשִׁחֵת אַרְצָה, לְבִלְתִּי נְתָן-זֶרַע, לְאָחִיו. 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. י וַיֵּרַע בְּעֵינֵי ה', אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה; וַיָּמֶת, גַּם-אֹתוֹ.

What was Er’s sin? Why? רע בעיני ה ': כרעתו של אונן משחית זרעו שנאמר באונן ' וימת גם אותו ' כמיתתו של ער, מיתתו של אונן ? ולמה היה ער משחית זרעו כדי שלא תתעבר ויכחיש יפיה ( יבמות לד )

Halachic source; What was ‘wicked in the eyes of Hashem?’ What does this have to do with surrogate motherhood?

Surrogacy in the Torah – what’s the difference? בראשית ל : א - זבראשית ל : ט - יבשמואל א : א - חרות ד : טז

Adultery? In pioneering ruling, Chief Rabbi Amar permits impoverished woman to use services of married surrogate mother in order to bring child into world