Torah laws towards a Gentile or resident alien
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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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.
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.
I didn't understand a word.
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?
How can one believe that the Torah is true, correct, and moral, when there is a serious moral difficulty here?
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.
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?
Also on Shabbat. See my article “Is there enlightened idolatry”.
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.
Are you reading what I write? Apparently not.
Sorry, I'll read now.
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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