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    The document discusses whether playing in the NFL violates Jewish law based on the story of Andre Waters, a former NFL player who committed suicide at age 44. It describes how Waters endured many concussions over his career and was diagnosed after death with CTE, a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated head trauma. The document then cites Jewish sources discussing an employer's responsibility for workers' safety and compensation for injuries on the job. It concludes that while workers assume some risk, employers have a duty under Jewish law to provide insurance and compensation to protect workers and their families from harm on the job.

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    Is the National Football League Breaking

    Jewish Law?
    Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz, Shavuos 2012/5772
    Congregation Adath Israel
    Palm Beach Post, September 11, 2010
    Dirty Waters, they called him. If you came across the middle with the ball, Andre Waters would go for your
    head, they said, and if you came across the middle without the ball, he'd go after you anyway.
    As much as Waters hated the nickname, he knew it had one benefit: intimidation.
    The Pahokee native, undersized as an NFL safety at only 185 pounds, paid a price for using his head as a
    battering ram. Although he put one opponent out of the league permanently, the collisions also took a toll on
    Waters, who stopped counting concussions after his 15th.
    Nearly four years ago, Waters stepped onto the pool deck of his Tampa home in the middle of the night clutching
    a .32-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol. He ended his life after only 44 years.
    After Waters' suicide, Bennet Omalu, the doctor who studied his brain - and that of other NFL players who died
    young - said the damage he discovered was consistent with that of 80- to 90-year-olds suffering from dementia.
    Family and friends are still not sure what made Waters pull the trigger, but Omalu offers a stark conclusion.
    "Football killed him,' the doctor said.
    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease, diagnosed post-mortem in
    individuals with a history of multiple concussions and other forms of head injury. A variant of the condition,
    dementia pugilistica (DP), is primarily associated with boxing. CTE has been most commonly found in
    professional athletes participating in American football, ice hockey, professional wrestling and other contact
    sports additionally on Military Service Personnel exposed to a blast and/or a concussive injury [1], who have
    experienced head trauma, resulting in characteristic degeneration of brain tissue and the accumulation of tau
    protein. Individuals with CTE may show symptoms of dementia, such as memory loss, aggression, confusion
    and depression, which may appear within months of the trauma or many decades later.
    Repeated concussions and injuries less
    serious than concussions ("subconcussions") incurred during the play of
    contact sports over a long period can result
    in CTE. The brain changes in CTE and DP
    are similar and are delayed effects of
    repeated concussions and sub-concussions
    of the brain.

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