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Judaism has a lot of rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments But the sanctity of life trumps virt
by js2 6y ago
Judaism has a lot of rules:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments
But the sanctity of life trumps virtually all of them, so you can almost always violate a commandment to save a life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikuach_nefesh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikuach_nefesh
- jedberg 6y agoAs teenage boys in Hebrew school, we always tried to figure out ways in which violating the commandment against adultery could save a life.
- tovmeod 6y agoIf I remember correctly there are 3 things you can't do to save a life: illicit relations, take a life and idolatry. Meaning even that if you do find yourself in a situation where cheating on your wife would actually save a life then it will still be forbidden
- TchoBeer 6y agoYeah, there's actually an explicit example in the talmud. https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.75a.2?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.75a.2?lang=bi&with=all&lan... definitely prohibited EDIT: actually this gemara is an example of saving ones own life, so maybe not
- herendin2 6y agoThen, to suggest an extreme and unpleasant scenario (sorry), a Jewish man who seduced Hitler's mother on a Saturday in early 1888 (the year before Adolf's birth) might be exempted from these Sabbath rules, perhaps?
- JimDabell 6y agoYou should watch the first episode of Black Mirror. Depending upon your exact interpretation of the rules, this may contain an example.