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face=Arial>From: Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer <A
href="mailto:rygb@aishdas.org">rygb@aishdas.org</A><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial>On 02/07/2014 04:49 AM, Eli Turkel wrote:<BR>> The gemara is on
Baba Metzia 62a in a famous story of 2 people lost in<BR>> the desert with
enough water for only one to reach new water. Ben<BR>> Peturah says they
should split the water while Rav Akiva says the<BR>> owner of the canteen
gets all the water<BR><BR>I don't know why people don't notice Rashi's critical
comment:<BR><BR><BR>["Ve'im yishteh ha'echad, magia' liyshuv" - and he will find
water.]<BR><BR>Isn't that obvious? What is Rashi
adding?<BR><BR>V'duk.<BR><BR>KT,<BR>YGB<BR><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I think Rashi is adding that if there is no chance of living
long enough to find new water, then they should share what they do
have. If they are both going to die let them share equally the time
remaining to them in this world. But if one of them might possibly survive
longer, then let one of them drink all the water. </DIV>
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<DIV>Mathematically you might think of it this way: suppose there are
four days' drinking water left. If divided equally they each can live two
days. The total of days lived is two plus two i.e., four days. It
could be zero days for the one and four days for the other and that would also
be a total of four, but it would be better for them both to share the days,
hence each lives two days.</DIV>
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<DIV>But if after four days one of them /can/ reach a well (but after two days
both will be dead), then let one die now and the other one live four days.
Then the total of days lived between the two of them will be much more than four
days. It will be zero (for the one guy) plus four days plus
all the rest of the second guy's years, which is a lot more life in
total. A lot more time to learn Torah and do mitzvos and bring schar
to the person who is still alive, plus he can do a lot of mitzvos le'ilui
nishmas his deceased friend.</DIV>
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<DIV>note to R' Micha -- if this is too obvious, or if it is obviously wrong,
please reject! thank you</DIV>
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