Word: tendler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from what constitutes a fair interest rate to how grain that falls into gopher holes during harvest time should be left for the poor. At Manhattan's Orthodox Yeshiva University, 150 rabbinic alumni listened to a lecture on halacha and science by Yeshiva's Dr. Moses D. Tendler, a 33-year-old rabbi and biologist. The lecture was a good example of how halacha changes with the times...
...real creatures in the line of life but the result of spontaneous generation-the louse from man's sweat and the maggot from decaying meat. Modern science, however, does not accept spontaneous generation; hence there must be some other reason for the law's distinction. Rabbi Tendler's answer: the dividing line is between the organism which exists on living matter (the worm on vegetable material, the flea on blood) and that which lives on dead and decaying matter (the maggot on rotting flesh, the head louse oa dead flakes of skin...
...generally understood by Orthodox rabbis as forbidding contraceptive devices, on the ground that users commit the sin of Onan, who "spilled [his seed] on the ground." But how about oral contraceptives in pill form? Rabbi Tendler's answer: oral contraceptives are permissible. But the effect of some of the pills now used (in experiments in Puerto Rico, for instance) is to reduce the hormone level in a woman, which in turn may result in constant minor bleeding from the uterus. The law forbids sexual intercourse with a woman who is nidah (menstruous); therefore intercourse would be wrong...