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Torah laws towards a Gentile or resident alien

שו”תTorah laws towards a Gentile or resident alien
asked 1 year ago

What is the ruling in the law regarding:
If a resident – who lives in Israel and is obligated to observe the Seven Commandments – is in danger of death on weekdays, is he obligated to save him from the danger of death?
What is the ruling in the law? Is a Gentile who practices idolatry obligated to save him from danger of death on weekdays?
 


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מיכי Staff answered 1 year ago
Regarding saving a resident from desecrating the Sabbath, then certainly also on weekdays. This is what is written in Pnini Halacha: And Rabbi Rabinowitz in Melomedei Milicham, p. 145, cited the words of the Ramban (Additions to the Mitzvot Asa 15) that it is commanded to save a resident alien, and his protection of life rejects Shabbat. And so is the opinion of the Tishbetz (Zohar HaRakia, Warnings 39). And according to the opinion of Maharit Chayut (from the article Tiferet Yisrael), honest Gentiles are subject to the same law as a resident alien, even though they share something else in their work. And Ramat Da Platzki wrote in Sefer Hemdat Yisrael that they do not need to be accepted before a court of law, and therefore it is now commanded to save them on Shabbat. Therefore. It is true that the Gra did not accept the words of the Ramban, and many did not accept the words of Maharit Chayut. And even the most lenient ones should be careful not to apply this opinion to just gentiles, and there have already been those who have mistakenly included most of the polite German people in general, including converts and residents. Rather, only to a gentile who is seriously committed to observing the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah, out of faith in the Lord, the God of Israel, can one say the opinion of the Ramban and his ilk. In my opinion, the same applies to a Gentile who worships idols if he acts in a reasonable, humane manner. See my article “Is there ‘enlightened’ idolatry?”

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ברק replied 1 year ago

Other questions: Regarding a Gentile who worships idols, it is written that they are neither raised nor lowered. What reason does the Torah have for determining the death of a Gentile who worships idols in advance (when there is a danger to his life, he is forbidden to be saved)? Is this a law related to some kind of spiritual correction of a Gentile? If this is not a law related to some kind of correction of a Gentile, then what is the purpose of causing him to die? After all, the Torah does not want the Gentiles to perish, so why are they supposed to cause him to die here? If the Holy One, blessed be He, does not do things for no reason, there must be a reason for the aforementioned law.

ברק replied 1 year ago

As in the four court deaths, which were given as punishment for someone who committed certain offenses that require punishment from one of the four court deaths, in order to cause the punished person to come to his senses, that through the torment his sins are atoned for.

מיכי Staff replied 1 year ago

I didn't understand a word.

ברק replied 1 year ago

I am currently in doubt about my faith. One of my doubts is about religion and morality. The question is what is the reason that is above the law regarding a Gentile, that if no one sees (there is no fear of hostility), it is forbidden to save the Gentile from death when the rescue involves desecrating the Sabbath, apart from the halachic reasoning that only someone who is obligated to keep the Sabbath must desecrate the Sabbath in order to save him, and a Gentile who does not keep the Sabbath is forbidden to desecrate the Sabbath for him. After all, the Torah does not want the Gentiles to perish, so why is it forbidden to save them here if the rescue involves desecrating the Sabbath? How can one deal with the moral difficulty here?

ברק replied 1 year ago

How can one believe that the Torah is true, correct, and moral, when there is a serious moral difficulty here?

מיכי Staff replied 1 year ago

Regarding halakha and morality, see column 541. There is no difficulty in this.
Desecrating Shabbat is a very severe prohibition. According to one explanation, it does not even reject the life of a Jew, but only because desecrating Shabbat to save it will allow him to keep many Sabbaths. This does not apply to a gentile.
But as I wrote above, we are only talking about a gentile who does not behave in a humane manner. An ordinary gentile today is obliged to desecrate Shabbat to save it.

ברק replied 12 months ago

Is every gentile who is righteous and keeps the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah commanded to be saved from the danger of death on a weekday and to be resurrected?

מיכי Staff replied 12 months ago

Also on Shabbat. See my article “Is there enlightened idolatry”.

ברק replied 12 months ago

How do you deal with the feeling that beats in your heart when there is a Gentile who is about to die on Shabbat and is trembling, and only desecrating Shabbat will save him, and there is no one who sees who could hate me if I don't save him. How do you deal with this storm of emotions? I believe that the Torah is true, only here it is something that I can't quite accept.

מיכי Staff replied 12 months ago

Are you reading what I write? Apparently not.

ברק replied 12 months ago

Sorry, I'll read now.

מיכי Staff replied 12 months ago

What does ‘Now read’ mean? This whole thread is about you. There is a conversation between the two of us, and you don't read what I write to you and write responses without reading. Are you serious? I'm done with this thread. I won't respond anymore.

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