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Haredi urges: Give a year of your lives to save ailing rabbi
By Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Mordechai Eliyahu 

An ultra-Orthodox supporter of former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who has been hospitalized in a serious condition for more than a month, has urged the Haredi public to "donate" a year of their lives to spur the rabbi's recovery.

The man made the call in a message he published in the religious weekly Besheva a few days ago.

He told Haaretz on Monday that since the publication of the advertisement, hundreds of Hasidim have told him of their intentions to sacrifice, at least symbolically, different periods of time from their lives in order to extend the lifespan of the rabbi.
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"This is my own private initiative," said the man, who requested to remain anonymous. "In my eyes, it's like donating a kidney or an organ to a sickly patient. This isn't a big sacrifice for the donators. I've seen how upset people have been since the rabbi was hospitalized, and this initiative cheers them up."

The idea to donate a period of time from one's life and transfer it to that of another is not based on any kind of Jewish law, although the man said the idea was taken from Talmudic literature, and different interpretations indicate that the idea is in fact possible.

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      1.   and then donate a year to the IDF, for real 19:19  |  Shelley 19/10/09
      2.   San Gennaro! 20:42  |  Rigoletto 19/10/09
      3.   Serving in the Army 21:10  |  Aharon 19/10/09
      4.   #1 Many Haredim serve in the IDF..Check your facts. 21:53  |  Safta 19/10/09
      5.   What is the trouble with you guys! 22:28  |  Zev Davis 19/10/09
      6.   serious 22:41  |  SL 19/10/09
      7.   Never heard of it. No OrthodoxRabbi would put their name on this. 22:48  |  David 19/10/09
      8.   All these foreigners worried about our army. 22:53  |  Jewish State 19/10/09
      9.   To Shelley. 00:03  |  Eliezer 20/10/09
      10.   Nonsense 03:02  |  Aussie Michael 20/10/09
      11.   Donate a year 04:10  |  Gershon Ron 20/10/09
      12.   Do I get to pick which year? 04:22  |  WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 20/10/09
      13.   Haredi urges: Give a year of your lives to save ailing rabbi 05:06  |  David R. Pressler 20/10/09
      14.   Good Luck 07:01  |  Sara 20/10/09
      15.   foolishness 09:42  |  Arrow6 20/10/09
      16.   as is written 12:27  |  amos 20/10/09
      17.   Haredi urges: give a year of your livesw 13:25  |  Marlene 20/10/09
      18.   Life belongs to YHWH 15:45  |  Lux 20/10/09
      19.   how many supporters does this rabbi have? 15:49  |  gawain 20/10/09
      20.   Funny to see instinctive hatred 19:38  |  Moises 20/10/09
      21.   It`s a custom similar to the changing of one`s name 22:54  |  Jacob Blues 20/10/09
      22.   get real! 23:09  |  Orion 20/10/09
      23.   It is said that . . . 23:31  |  Zev Davis 20/10/09
      24.   How exactly does one sacrafice a portion of thier life? 02:46  |  Araqiels 21/10/09
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