[Avodah] The Rosh ruled that a rav was a zaken mamre

Rich, Joel JRich at sibson.com
Tue Nov 9 07:24:50 PST 2010



In other words: According to my understanding, there are only two circumstances under which the Torah allows a Jew to kill another: (a) In the case where a duly-constituted beis din has sentenced someone to death, and (b) To prevent a murderer or potential murderer from murdering, and this includes lots of cases such as self-defense, getting rid of a moser, and the like.

Does the example of the Rosh fit into one of these two? Is there a third that I didn't think of?

Akiva Miller

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3. The beit din or some other authority (therein lies another rub) takes the power originally allocated to the Jewish king to maintain civil society.
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Joel Rich
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