Very interesting. Thank you.
See also here - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/histo...a/mesirat-
2.htm - for a related discussion.
I believe R' Moshe Shternbuch has a Teshuva somewhere in Tshuvos V' Hanahagos involving the same story (also permitting.)
Intresante. But ultimately Y. Lifshitz is right that we cannot judge or second-guess. It's one thing to write a teshuvah somewhere to say objectively that one should not discriminate in selection. But when is staring down a blank order to produce 500 children, and for every single parent that child is his heart and soul - what should the community leaders do? We know some community leaders killed themsleves rather than deal with such issues. It was a horrific, impossible situation.
>The idea that Halachah allows the privileged, the rich and the well connected to utilize their wealth and influence to shift, even indirectly, the burden of military service onto their less fortunate brethren26 will very likely trouble those (such as me) with modern, Western value systems.
I would be interested in the answer, in light of the sources brought down in this post, to a question of this sort:
Would one be permitted to swap a jewish boy caught by "evil forces" with a non-jewish one?
This issue is (being) covered in great detail by R' Rakefet in his shiurim on Shu"t (starting Sept. 2007). He starts with the mishna in Terumos on mesira and works from there.
Also, the Noda B'Yehuda is R' Yechezkel Landau...
> Also, the Noda B'Yehuda is R' Yechezkel Landau...
Yes, but it includes many responsa authored by his son Rav Shmuel, who signs this one.
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