Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

They had one in the Heisman pose and one sitting there playing chess.

It's disgusting.

But people wanted to go and look at the bodies exhibit.

So Rabbi Bleich wrote an article on the topic in Tradition at the time.

It was later published in one of the volumes of Contemporary Halachic Problems.

One of my Talmidim asked me about this because he was a pre-med student.

here in Yeshiva, and he wanted to stand out among his fellow med school applicants.

So he figured a good way to stand out is if he becomes a docent at the Badi exhibit.

How many of them are going to be able to say that they were that?

So he wanted to know if it was mutter to do that.

So that's where Bleich talks about this topic.

But wait a second, is the whole thing asr ba'anah anyway?

It happens to be that whether it's considered anah to look at it, so that's again, that's the topic we spoke about.

Rav Zid Beis Yosef writes in Yerudaya that you're not allowed to hear kol zemr shal avodazara or lehistakal b'noy shala.

Avodazara is asr ba'anah, you're not allowed to look at it to appreciate its beauty.

So it's not a slam dunk that looking at a leopard is not a problem.

It could be that if you appreciate the beauty of nature,

When you're looking at it, it could be that it is a problem of an Isr Hana'a.

So now we have to figure out, well, wait a second, is it Asr Bahana'a to begin with?

So the Gemara in Sanhedrin of Tesvavam Beis talks about if you have a Nachash that harag, if you have a Nachash that kills, so you're allowed to kill it right away.