[Avodah] eiva

[Zev Sero]

On 10/08/2011 12:52 PM, Eli Turkel wrote:
> <<I'm not trying to reason from anything (yet), I'm simply trying to find
> out what you see as the parameters of the post-1800 heter. Is it only
> applicable to life-or-death situations?>>
>
> To the best of my knowledge ALL Israeli hospitals including the
> religious ones treat nonJewish
> patients on shabbat. Hence, obviously eivah means that not treating
> such patients would be
> a PR disaster with its implications and certainly not life-or-death in
> any direct sense.

Huh?  I would have thought in EY of all places the danger is obvious and
direct.  We saw what the Arabs did when their leaders made up a story of
poor little Mohammed al-Durah; imagine what they would do if it became
known that the Jews didn't save some kid's life because it was Shabbos!
In every blood libel the majority knew that the story wasn't true; imagine
if the majority knew that this time the story circulating *was* true!


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