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Lest we die, let us not feel, Lest we die, let us not feel

שו"תLest we die, let us not feel, Lest we die, let us not feel
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Gittin 28: – Lest he die, let us not be afraid, Lest he die, let us not be afraid.
This is one of the excuses of the Gamma for the contradiction between the Mishnah in Gittitin (a daughter of Israel who is married to a priest and her husband goes to the sea country eats a teruma on the assumption that he is alive) and the baraita which states that "Since this is Gittih one hour before his death, it is forbidden to eat a teruma immediately."
What is the logical reasoning behind this excuse?
After all, if I'm afraid he'll die in another hour, then after an hour has passed, am I supposed to be afraid he's dead?


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The logic is probably not probabilistic but halakhic. A possible explanation is the following: lest his senses die. It is clear that when I am in this given moment, that person will certainly die at some point, therefore it is impossible to make an assumption that a person will not die in the future. In any case, at every moment there is a fear that he will die. But if I am in any given moment, it is not necessary that he died in the past at any moment. Perhaps he will die in the future. But if he did not die in the past, he will certainly die in the future. Associatively, it reminds me a bit of the difference between a semi-infinite segment backwards or forwards. Some first-timers provide evidence that the age of the world is finite and therefore it was created by something/someone, since if it is of infinite age it could not have reached the present moment. It takes an infinite amount of time. I was asked about this in the past and I answered that the question is based on a misunderstanding of the concept of infinity. When looking back, you can say that the world has existed for an infinite amount of time, meaning that it exists at every moment of time that has ever existed. There is no moment of time when the world did not exist. But when looking forward, you cannot say that you start at minus infinity and move towards the present moment. I did not think enough about this association, and why did I really remember it. I am writing it here for your reference.

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