[Avodah] Water bottle in the desert

[Rich, Joel]

> rodef is the answer)?

No, the answer is "min hashamayim ka-radfu lah"; death in childbirth was seen as natural, and therefore not attributable to the baby.
It seems to me that in a case where it is clearly the baby who is endangering the mother, then he is a rodef even if he has crowned.


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Zev Sero          
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Are you arguing that if a Non-Jew was about to drop a Reuvain on shimon to kill shimon, that shimon could kill reuvain? What if reuvain is allergic to shimon's deodorant and they are locked in a room together, can reuvain kill shimon?
KT
Joel Rich
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