[Avodah] Threats Against A Judge

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:11:04AM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: One of "the three listed exceptions" is murder. I have two questions:

To tie this to another thread I just revived....

Perhaps the 3 mitzvos yeihareig ve'al ya'avor are unique in that they
define dying al qiddush Hashem? Dying for shoelace color is situtational,
whatever they banned to get rid of Judaism. But in the definition of
dying AQH, these 3 mitvos are phrased as absolute, not situational.

: 1) It seems to me that the prohibiton against murder DOES require
: mesiras nefesh by its very nature: "Who knows whose blood is redder?"

I fail to undertand what you're saying. How does your question make
shefichas dam more about mesiras nefesh than AZ or gilui arayos?
What the question you quote shows is why one should be moseir
nefesh, why this made it to the list of 3. But how does it define
the very nature of refusing to kill?

IOW, in most situations I can refrain from killing someone without risking
my life. This is in contrast to a milchamah, where it's impossible to
not assume risk.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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