Summary
Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a couple navigate the decision to donate their embryos. They’d like to give the gift to a Jewish family. They’d like to maintain close contact. Are mitzvahs still mitzvahs if you have an ulterior motive?
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| 0:59.5 | Hello and welcome back to chutzpah. |
| 1:05.9 | Real life lived better, where each week we apply Jewish tradition and the wisdom of the frozen chosen to answer a letter sent by you, the listener, about an issue that is live in your life. |
| 1:11.8 | I'm Rabbi Shira Stutman. |
| 1:13.7 | And I'm Hannah Rosen, and I'm apologizing Shira for this noise outside my window. |
| 1:19.6 | Somebody is not respecting the Sabbath. |
| 1:22.8 | No, it's Friday. |
| 1:23.8 | It is not Shabbat, everyone. |
| 1:25.6 | It's not Shabbat. |
| 1:27.1 | Okay, Hannah, I have a question for you. What was the |
| 1:29.5 | process of getting pregnant like for you? Like, how is the sex? Well, okay, how was your sex life, |
| 1:39.9 | Hannah? No, seriously, like was it an easy process? Was it fraught? Was it long? Did it involve a lot of ethical |
| 1:45.3 | quandaries for you? That's a really, really, really good question. I didn't think much the way kids |
| 1:52.0 | today do. I wasn't that intentional. Like how many kids am I going to have? When am I going to have |
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