[Avodah] Wartime Orders

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R' Saul Weinreb:

The question that bothers me is what about in training?  There must be a
point where one should not do things during training on shabbos because the
environment is not truly a sakkanah.  However, one can also argue that
training is a crucial and essential part of fighting a war.  If so, if a
soldier decides not to follow orders because it is shabbos, and he doesn't
want to carry his weapon (a probable derabbanan) or use his weapon (a
probable deoraysah) to what extant can one argue that this endangers the
mission and the other soldiers and may be permitted on shabbos?

 

 

 

Once someone is in the army, isn't it pretty easy to get court-martialed for
not obeying orders? And doesn't the army have the power to execute soldiers
who disobey orders? Could that be an argument that disobeying any order is
Safek Pikuach Nefesh?

(Al Achas Kama V'Kama if someone is serving in the military in some country
that is not as civilized as the USA.)

 

KT,

MYG

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