[Avodah] assisted suicide

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:48:20 EST
T613K at aol.com wrote:

[snip]

> However, bnai Noach are not allowed to commit suicide -- that  falls under 
> "not killing" in the sheva mitzvos.

Incorrect.

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It also appears to me, that a Ben Noah is not commanded [against
suicide], for it is derived from [the verse] "ach es dimchem
l'nafshoseichem", and it is not reiterated at Sinai, if so it is said
to Yisrael and not to B'nei Noah.

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-- Minhas Hinuch #34 s.v. v'hinei m'abed azmo la'da'as

There may well be a dissenting view, although the Machon Yerushalayim
edition of the Hinuch, which is usually pretty good about such things,
has nothing to say, but one certainly cannot flatly declare a prohibition
where the Minhas Hinuch admits none.

> --Toby Katz

Yitzhak
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