[Avodah] assisted suicide

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R' MB:
> I would assert that Luz as described didn't exist. Not only does it
> fail the Rambam's test, but Luz is given in the Chumash as the
> original name of Beis-El (Bereishis 28:19). Aside from Luz being the
> "Home of G-d" in that sense, it's the bone that rests at the base of
> the skull, the connection between brain and body. Luz (chestnut?) is
> also the wood from which Yaaqov avinu made his spotted sticks. It is
> the name of a bone that never decays, and is associated with techiyas
> hameisim. And the name of a city never taken by Sancheirev or
> Nevuchadnetzar.
> 
> And a city where no one lies.
> 
> The moral message is blatant. No lying, no death, Yaaqov's financial
> success, the place where earth and heaven meet.

R' Dessler (vol. 4, page 210) understands Luz to symbolize Chessed, and also
seems to think that it really existed in Shlomo's time.

KT,
MYG