[Avodah] Matisyahu, Pikuach Nefesh Dochah Shabbos

[Rich, Joel]

	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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	Interesting, is it pashut that you are not mchallel shabbat in
P"N situation if you think it would be futile even for chayei shaah?  I
thought not.

	KT
	Joel Rich 

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