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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>From: rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com<BR>To: "Daniel Eidensohn"
<yadmoshe@012.net.il>, <BR><BR><BR>> The truth is not this
way. Rambam (Hilchos Issurei Bi'ah 12:7-8)<BR>> states that even though
sexual relations with a non-Jewish maidservant<BR>> is only a rabbinic
prohibition he rules that, "this sin even though<BR>> it is not punished by
capital punishment from the court should not be<BR>> viewed lightly. That is
because there is a loss associated with sexual<BR>> relations with a nonJew
which you don't find in the violation of all<BR>> the other prohibited sexual
relations. [--RDE citing Rambam]<BR><BR>>> My question -- which is
essentially academic -- is this a meta-Halachic<BR>consideration or straight
basic Halachah? <<<BR><BR><BR>KT<BR>RRW <BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I do not believe this can possibly be a halachic teshuvah -- IOW it MUST be
meta-halachic -- because no true halachic shailah can ever be couched in these
terms: "Rabbi, I have absolutely made up my mind to sin and I want you to
tell me which sin to commit, sin A or sin B." No halachic teshuvah could
ever be rendered to any such phoney shailah. No posek could ever pasken
that a Jew should commit a sin. (He could give advice, but not a
psak.)</DIV>
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<DIV>(A completely different case would be one where a person says, "If I have
to take a sick child to the hospital on Shabbos, should I do this or should I do
that?" Because there, there is no actual chillul Shabbos since the halacha
itself says that pikuach nefesh comes first, and so even if it is preferable,
say, to take a taxi rather than drive your own car, the actual shailah is not
"What sin should I commit?")</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><BR></FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby
Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV>
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