Q. Dear Rabino, it was great communicating again after so many years. I got an unusual question, as I told you, I much enjoy visiting the old open market places in Mexico City and other smaller villages, sometimes you find most unusual items and I like to buy and then resell in other countries at a high profit.
I found recently a stand that sold shrunken human heads the seller said he got secretively from Ecuador. They were not expensive and out of curiosity I bought one. After having a medic inspect it and giving a letter that it was indeed human, I found a client in the a Northern country that was willing to pay a considerable price and used for a conversation item for his many guest.
My question is is one allowed to derive ant benefit from human bodies (non-Jewish)?
A. Poskim disagree whether a Gentile's body is prohibited from deriving benefit of it and in need it is permitted.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it can in principle be sold.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a.
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