The right of the pursuer to oppose neutralization
Hello Rabbi,
Ostensibly, if there is a mitzvah for everyone to neutralize the pursuer, then the pursuer himself has a mitzvah not to resist the neutralization? Or does the pursuer still have the right to resist the neutralization (and even to the point of killing the neutralizer)? As it seems to me, there is no reference to this in the Mishnah Torah, Laws of the Murderer and the Preservation of the Soul, Chapter 1
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This issue appears in Zimri. The Gemara says that if he had turned around and killed Pinchas from the pursuit, he would have been exempt. In Malam Pa’a Mahal’ Rottsach discusses the expansions of this law (what about an accidental murderer who kills the blood avenger, and there is still a discussion about who kills the messenger of the 14th century).
The pursuer has no right to oppose neutralization, just as he has no right to kill. In fact, he himself was obliged to kill himself by the law of the pursuer (or, of course, to stop pursuing). This is how I explained here a few weeks ago the law that a messenger in a court of law is not permitted to kill him because the accused himself must kill himself. Killing criminals is a commandment imposed on the public, and a messenger in a court of law is a messenger for everyone (including the persecuted).
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