[Avodah] Matisyahu, Pikuach Nefesh Dochah Shabbos

[Moshe Yehuda Gluck]

R' Elchanan Schulgasser:

As told, the Yavanim would wait until Shabbos and then go out to find the
caves in which Jews were hiding in order to kill them (the Jews) while they
(again the Jews) were defenseless. This slaughter went on until Matisyahu
told everyone that pikuach nefesh is dochah Shabbos. 

 

Of course, there are questions on this (not the least of which is you didn't
need Matisyahu to know that PN is dochah Shabbos) and the shiur answers many
of them. But my question is simply if anyone could point me to the source of
this...Chazal? Rishon? 

 

 

 

 

Our local radio station played a lecture from Rabbi Irons (Detroit) tonight,
who mentioned this. It's in I Maccabees 2:32-41, available at
http://www.hope.edu/bandstra/BIBLE/1MA/1MA2.HTM. Rabbi Irons explained that
the Jews felt that it was futile to be Mechalel Shabbos, they would be
killed either way. Matisyahu was "m'chadesh" that they could, and would,
win.

 

KT and ALC,

MYG

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