<div dir="ltr">After some questions I will attempt to clarify a little more (better?) the position of<br>R. Zilberstein (in several shiurim over the years) and the poskim he quotes.<br><br>1. The case asked of the CI (Sanhedrin 25) is quite close to the trolley case. The case was a car out of control<br>
that is headed towards a crowd. One is able to move the steering wheel to direct it towards a<br>much smaller group of people. The CI introduces the case of deflecting an arrow from the many<br>to the few. The CI attempts to allow it since the action is a positive one not meant to kill anyone.<br>
However, the CI ends with a tzarich iyun because in fact he is actively killing someone even though<br>unwillingly.<br><br>R Zilberstein was discussing a case of triage. He paskened that a doctor should choose the medium case<br>
rather than the most severe case as the chance of saving the patient is greater. He then said that even<br>if the doctor was in the middle of treating the severe case, eg he was putting pressure on a wound to<br>slow the blood flow, he should leave because any damage to that patient is indirect (based on an<br>
Even Haezel) and so even the CI would agree.<br><br>2. In a later shiur the question came up whether a doctor should treat a person wounded by a terrorist<br>or else try and stop the terrorist from a mass murder. His conclusion was that if the terrorist is in<br>
the immediate vicinity he should try and stop him. However, in more general cases there are too<br>many doubts and better to defintely save this one patient (ein safek motzi mide vadai)<br><br>3. In the lrecent shiur that I quoted R. Zilberstein reaches the following conclusions based on the<br>
Meiri that the Mishna that says that once the baby has its head out that the mother and baby are equal<br>applied to outside people. However, the mother has the right to save her own life at the expense of the infant.<br>
<br>All the conclusions were preceded by perhaps (Nireh or Yitachen)<br><br>a. The paratrooper is allowed to cut the cord from the other parachute to save his own life<br>b. One is not required to give preference to the officer but it is preferable<br>
c. The electrician is allowed to disconnect the electricity even though someone is on life support<br>d. Tzarich Iyun if one can kill a terrorist when innocent bystanders will also be killed<br>e. If a doctor is a rodef someone can kill the doctor even though the patient will die<br>
f. One could bomb the train station going to Auschwitz even though there are Jews in the station<br><br>Again all the above conclusions were introduced with Nireh or Yitachen<br>He concludes based on a Chatam Sofer that learning these halachot can result in the zechut that it won't be necessary to deal with such questions lemaaseh<br>
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Eli Turkel<br>
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