Killing a humanoid
Hello Rabbi, a somewhat fictional question:
There are two dunes where there is a humanoid that was killed/murdered:
1) The Golem from Prague (assuming you know)
2) A movie called The Prestige, whose plot is less than a year old, but there is some fictional work by Nikola Tesla that can replicate anything, down to the atomic level, and also to the level of brain cells and memory. There is someone who replicates himself, and each time the replicated character (or the original, it’s hard to tell, the replicated man claims himself that he never knows who will drown and who will survive, because the last existing memory is of the last character who survived, and memory accumulates) is murdered by drowning.
My question: Is killing such a creature considered murder? (If so, is the Maharal, according to the story, considered the murderer of the golem, because he caused it to return to its original form?)
Is there a difference in the answers from the difference in the description of the creation of the cocoon according to what I described compared to Tesla’s imaginary machine?
I didn’t understand the situation, but in my opinion, humans don’t collect molecules, so the question doesn’t even begin.
I will try to explain a little:
The Golem of Prague was created, according to the fictional story, from a dance and some act of Kabbalah in which the Maharl breathed a kind of life spirit into it.
If a person were to kill this Golem, would he be accused of murder?
Would it be right for the Maharl to kill such a creature after it was created (to take from it the life spirit that was within it).
In the second case, the machine, which is not clear how it works, creates an exact replica down to the level of consciousness of the body it affects (still, living, speaking).
It is clear that man is not a collection of particles, that is how we do perceive it and so do the secularists, even though they claim that there is no soul.
But both in the case of the Golem, and in the case of the film in question, the man who was created was not created in the usual way of an egg and a sperm (and a soul).
My question is on the halakhic level, not on the moral level.
As we were taught, there is a moral aspect that it is forbidden to murder (as we learned from the story of Cain and Abel) and there is a Torah aspect that added to us at Mount Sinai.
It is completely clear to me that it would be forbidden to kill the people (creatures?) in the description I gave in the moral aspect.
But are we also passing over “Thou shalt not murder” here?
“Secular” This is not a name for a distinct group of perceptions and opinions. These secularists are “non-religious”
When you say “claim there is no soul” you mean materialists, and they do indeed claim that we are a collection of particles. If there is something beyond physics – we will call it a soul.
Rabbi Michi explains to you that there is no way to answer the question, because consciousness is not a collection of particles. Your question is based on an incorrect premise – that consciousness can be replicated by copying particles in the brain. Therefore, it cannot be answered.
We can answer you this way:
The assumptions and definitions in the question are incorrect, but if we ignore how this happened, and we are faced with a conscious entity, it is forbidden to kill it.
As for the Golem, it's just a story, but even in the stories she was... well, a Golem... a humanoid machine. Such a machine has no moral standing.
Even my hands are with him. A word in the rock.
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