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The first is that those who offered their lives rather than violate the Sabbath assumed that the Torah requires them to do so , presumably because the Torah nowhere indicates the conditions under which its Sabbath laws may be violated .
The first is that those who offered their lives rather than violate the Sabbath assumed that the Torah requires them to do so , presumably because the Torah nowhere indicates the conditions under which its Sabbath laws may be violated .
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Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah , and others were once walking together when the question was asked , Whence do we derive the right to violate the Sabbath in order to save a human life ? " Note that the question is not whether it is or is not ...
Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah , and others were once walking together when the question was asked , Whence do we derive the right to violate the Sabbath in order to save a human life ? " Note that the question is not whether it is or is not ...
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Thus it was taken for granted that everyone would understand that the permission to violate the Sabbath , even when it was doubtful whether life was at stake , was , in the words of Maharsha , " not uprooting the the Torah but ...
Thus it was taken for granted that everyone would understand that the permission to violate the Sabbath , even when it was doubtful whether life was at stake , was , in the words of Maharsha , " not uprooting the the Torah but ...
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| Title | The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage Volume 4 of Moreshet series : studies in Jewish history, literature and thought Volume 4 of Moreshet series |
| Author | Simon Greenberg |
| Publisher | Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0873340027, 9780873340021 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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