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Transhumanism

Shalom, Rabbi, how are you? What is the Jewish take on transhumanism? I personally find the movement spiritually void and very misguided and dangerous. I personally believe that man is made in the image of God and that means that there is always an emotional component behind a disease. I have a health records clerk certificate and friends and family in the medical field and who are medically informed. Most of the ideas sound dangerous and work against the biological design. I also do not endorse coercing people into taking such treatments as it violates basic human rights. I am writing the second part of my interfaith medical treatise on medicine based on treatments that have helped me and this came to my attention. Can you please help me?

Shalom,

Rachel

There are no hard and fast rules about white shirts. In general, a white shirt is considered to be a modest but respectable garment, and a person should wear clothing that is respectable.


Also, part of the day is spent standing in prayer in front of the Creator, and this certainly warrants respectable attire.


In any case, the main thing is not the external garments, but rather the spiritual ones, namely, a person’s thought, speech, and deed. Physical clothing is only a means to the end, the goal being purity of spiritual garments.

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