[Avodah] kamztah and bar-kamztah

Daniel Eidensohn yadmoshe at 012.net.il
Sun Jul 15 16:11:14 PDT 2007


Rich, Joel wrote:
> There's a similar issue where the Roman's sent 2 emissaries to determine
> whether the torah was biased against non-Jews.  They were taught all of
> torah and found 2 examples but decided not to report.  Why didn't chazal
> simply leave these out? IIRC R'Bleich explained that ziyuf hatora must
> override pikuach nefesh even on this scale (it was a tape shiur I heard
> years ago so....)
>
>   

This is the view of the Yam Shel Shlomo Bava Kama (daf 38a) perek 4 
simon 9. This is cited a number of places in the Igros Moshe EH III, 
#18, OH II # 51 as something to be concerned with - but not necessarily 
to die for.




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