On eating matzah during rape
What is the logic behind the halacha that someone who ate matzah while raped fulfilled the obligation of eating matzah?
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The logic is that eating it is a mitzvah. Especially if he is preparing for a mitzvah, then why was there rape here? We are back to the question of double intention. Think about a situation where you are eating matzah, and in the meantime someone is holding a gun behind you and planning to shoot you if you don't eat. Didn't you go out? So if he threatens you with his mouth, and yet what you are doing is for the sake of a mitzvah, why don't you go out? It is absurd that an act that constitutes a mitzvah and you go out in a mitzvah, would lose its meaning just because someone decided to threaten you. It is true that if you had not eaten without the threat, you might not have gone out (and even if one were to discuss it as if he were coerced to the point where he says, "I want to," that coercion gives rise to a true desire. This is what is meant by the issue of Rehmat forbidding Persians to eat matzah, which is that he would not have eaten without the coercion). See also the responsa regarding Prohibition of revenge when there are additional motives .
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