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

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0500, Rich, Joel wrote:
: [RAM:]
:> 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.

: 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.

Isn't that the same as (b)? Or is there a distinction I'm missing?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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