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Pious Gentiles according to Rabbi Yisrael Lipschutz By Menachem Butler At the core of the Jewish tradition is Kol Yisrael Yesh laHem Chelek l’Olam haBah, that "All of Israel has a share in the World to Come" [Mishnah Sanhedrin (10:1)]. Buried deep within a footnote, Rabbi Chaim Rapoport, however, notes that Rabbi Yisrael Lipschutz (in his Tiferet Yisrael 3:14) extends this endorsement to several pious gentiles who too will receive a portion in the World to Come; they are: (a) Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who discovered the vaccine against smallpox; (b) Sir Francis Drake (1540-96) who [according to Rabbi Lipschutz] brought the potato to Europe, thereby saving many people from starvation; (c) Johann Gutenberg (c. 1400-68) the inventor of the art of employing moveable types in printing; and (d) Johann Reuchlan (1455-1522), a Catholic priest who put his life on the line in order to prevent the burning of the Talmud under a Decree issued by the Viennese Emperor Maximillian in the year 1502.] Source: Chaim Rapoport, The Messiah Problem: Berger, The Angel and the Scandal of Reckless Indiscrimination (2002), p. 88 (n. 184)