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<DIV>Reb Arie Folger writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>Is being court martialed a pikuach nefesh? Can you have a hetter for dichui Shabbos by getting yourself into the situation where not doing so isn't an option, even though pushing off the training until Sunday is theoretically possible (if a Shomer Shabbos training division were opened, for example) and won't result in any deaths on active duty?</DIV>
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<DIV>I don't think being court martialled is a pikuash nefesh, as I stated before, people don't actually get executed for such things in today's military. However, you do bring up am interesting question. Let's say for arguments sake, that one is not allowed to enter a profession where he will be called upon to do melacha on shabbos that is sakanas nefashos (this is highly debatable, but just for now assume that it is assur). The person joins anyway, either out of ignorance, or because he didn't care that it was prohibited. Now he is in the situation that he must do a melacha and it really is unquestionably sakanas nefashos, can he do the melacha now?</DIV></body></html>