<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 7/17/2007 6:13:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, avodah-request@lists.aishdas.org writes:<BR>
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>There's a similar issue where the Roman's sent 2 emissaries to determine<BR>
>whether the torah was biased against non-Jews. ?They were taught all of<BR>
>torah and found 2 examples but decided not to report. ?Why didn't chazal<BR>
>simply leave these out? IIRC R'Bleich explained that ziyuf hatora must<BR>
>override pikuach nefesh even on this scale (it was a tape shiur I heard<BR>
>years ago so....)<BR>
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It is from the Maharshal. (B"K 32?)<BR>
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Maharshal in YSS to B.K.38-also Meiri there. R. Bleichs later wrote up and published the shiur ( I think he originally gave it at a RIETS Yom Iyun) as an article in Tradition,and then included it in one of his volumes on Contemporary Halachic Problems.</FONT><BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML>